C20 Society
@c20society.bsky.social
The national charity campaigning to protect Britain’s modern architectural and design heritage. Reuse Them or Lose Them!
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· Apr 9
🚨 Reuse Them or Lose Them: C20's Risk List campaign 2025 is here!
From a Millennium pop music museum in Sheffield to a Bauhaus-inspired 1930s department store in Bradford, a 1970s brutalist football stand in Newcastle, to a 1980s ‘High-Tech Nissen hut in London.
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From a Millennium pop music museum in Sheffield to a Bauhaus-inspired 1930s department store in Bradford, a 1970s brutalist football stand in Newcastle, to a 1980s ‘High-Tech Nissen hut in London.
c20society.org.uk/buildings-at...
The Sir Antony Gormley Foundation want to turn this former fire station in Hexham into a store and exhibition space for his work, with the overwhelming support of the local community.
The local council? Nope, we'll demolish that for a recycling depot thanks. Crackers.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The local council? Nope, we'll demolish that for a recycling depot thanks. Crackers.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The Sir Antony Gormley Foundation want to turn this former fire station in Hexham into a store and exhibition space for his work, with the overwhelming support of the local community.
The local council? Nope, we'll demolish that for a recycling depot thanks. Crackers.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The local council? Nope, we'll demolish that for a recycling depot thanks. Crackers.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
EVENT: C20’s Autumn Lecture Series on Buildings for Sport & Leisure concludes this week, with Josh Jones exploring the social role of sports buildings in Wales.
📆 Thu 27 Nov 2025 - 6.30-8pm
📍 The Gallery, 70 Cowcross Street, London + Online
🎟️ Book tickets: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...
📆 Thu 27 Nov 2025 - 6.30-8pm
📍 The Gallery, 70 Cowcross Street, London + Online
🎟️ Book tickets: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...
November 25, 2025 at 10:38 AM
EVENT: C20’s Autumn Lecture Series on Buildings for Sport & Leisure concludes this week, with Josh Jones exploring the social role of sports buildings in Wales.
📆 Thu 27 Nov 2025 - 6.30-8pm
📍 The Gallery, 70 Cowcross Street, London + Online
🎟️ Book tickets: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...
📆 Thu 27 Nov 2025 - 6.30-8pm
📍 The Gallery, 70 Cowcross Street, London + Online
🎟️ Book tickets: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...
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RSHP’s Inmos Microprocessing Factory in Newport, Wales, has been Grade II* listed
‘High-Tech masterpiece’: Rogers’ Inmos factory awarded Grade II* listing
‘High-Tech masterpiece’: Rogers’ Inmos factory awarded Grade II* listing
www.architectsjournal.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
RSHP’s Inmos Microprocessing Factory in Newport, Wales, has been Grade II* listed
NEWS: We’re delighted to announce that Inmos Microprocessing Factory in Newport (Richard Rogers & Partners, 1982), one of the most innovative industrial buildings of the late 20th century, has been Grade II* listed following an application by C20 and C20 Cymru.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:11 AM
NEWS: We’re delighted to announce that Inmos Microprocessing Factory in Newport (Richard Rogers & Partners, 1982), one of the most innovative industrial buildings of the late 20th century, has been Grade II* listed following an application by C20 and C20 Cymru.
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EVENT: Join C20 President @SamiraAhmedUK
for our annual Xmas Lecture: From Cathedrals to Cooling Towers–Global stories about the buildings that bond us.
🗓️ Tue 2 Dec 2025 6.30pm – 8pm
📍 The Gallery, Cowcross St+Online
🎟️ Book tickets: @c20society.bsky.social
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for our annual Xmas Lecture: From Cathedrals to Cooling Towers–Global stories about the buildings that bond us.
🗓️ Tue 2 Dec 2025 6.30pm – 8pm
📍 The Gallery, Cowcross St+Online
🎟️ Book tickets: @c20society.bsky.social
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November 23, 2025 at 10:35 AM
EVENT: Join C20 President @SamiraAhmedUK
for our annual Xmas Lecture: From Cathedrals to Cooling Towers–Global stories about the buildings that bond us.
🗓️ Tue 2 Dec 2025 6.30pm – 8pm
📍 The Gallery, Cowcross St+Online
🎟️ Book tickets: @c20society.bsky.social
secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...
for our annual Xmas Lecture: From Cathedrals to Cooling Towers–Global stories about the buildings that bond us.
🗓️ Tue 2 Dec 2025 6.30pm – 8pm
📍 The Gallery, Cowcross St+Online
🎟️ Book tickets: @c20society.bsky.social
secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...
EVENT: Join C20 for a special curator talk and tour of the new exhibition, Theo Crosby: 100 Lives at Osh Gallery - celebrating the visionary architect, designer, curator and artist.
🗓️ Tue 9 Dec 2025 - 6:30-8PM
📍 Osh Gallery, 46 Essex Road, London
🎟️ Tickets: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...
🗓️ Tue 9 Dec 2025 - 6:30-8PM
📍 Osh Gallery, 46 Essex Road, London
🎟️ Tickets: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...
November 20, 2025 at 11:16 AM
EVENT: Join C20 for a special curator talk and tour of the new exhibition, Theo Crosby: 100 Lives at Osh Gallery - celebrating the visionary architect, designer, curator and artist.
🗓️ Tue 9 Dec 2025 - 6:30-8PM
📍 Osh Gallery, 46 Essex Road, London
🎟️ Tickets: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...
🗓️ Tue 9 Dec 2025 - 6:30-8PM
📍 Osh Gallery, 46 Essex Road, London
🎟️ Tickets: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...
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Plans to replace timber windows with uPVC ones at Peter Barber’s award-winning Donnybrook Quarter in east London have prompted widespread concern
Plans to retrofit Peter Barber housing with uPVC are ‘devastating’
Plans to retrofit Peter Barber housing with uPVC are ‘devastating’
www.architectsjournal.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Plans to replace timber windows with uPVC ones at Peter Barber’s award-winning Donnybrook Quarter in east London have prompted widespread concern
NEWS: C20 Society has engaged in constructive dialogue with Clarion Housing regarding the heritage and maintenance of Donnybrook Quarter in Tower Hamlets, designed by Peter Barber Architects (2006)
November 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
NEWS: C20 Society has engaged in constructive dialogue with Clarion Housing regarding the heritage and maintenance of Donnybrook Quarter in Tower Hamlets, designed by Peter Barber Architects (2006)
It is exactly two years since C20 Society established the Elain Harwood Fund to secure her legacy, and hosted an incredibly moving event in her honour at the Southbank Centre.
We’re pleased to announce the Fund has now reached £81,000 in donations – over half way to our initial target of £150,000. 🧵
We’re pleased to announce the Fund has now reached £81,000 in donations – over half way to our initial target of £150,000. 🧵
November 18, 2025 at 10:43 AM
It is exactly two years since C20 Society established the Elain Harwood Fund to secure her legacy, and hosted an incredibly moving event in her honour at the Southbank Centre.
We’re pleased to announce the Fund has now reached £81,000 in donations – over half way to our initial target of £150,000. 🧵
We’re pleased to announce the Fund has now reached £81,000 in donations – over half way to our initial target of £150,000. 🧵
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Historic England has said it can not support plans by AHMM to alter Sheffield’s ‘Modernist crown jewel’, a former John Lewis department store, warning key architectural elements would be lost.
‘Sheffield deserves better’ – Historic England criticises AHMM’s plans for listed icon
‘Sheffield deserves better’ – Historic England criticises AHMM’s plans for listed icon
www.architectsjournal.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Historic England has said it can not support plans by AHMM to alter Sheffield’s ‘Modernist crown jewel’, a former John Lewis department store, warning key architectural elements would be lost.
NEWS: In a moving and poignant case study for modern heritage, the government has announced that the National Covid Memorial Wall in Lambeth will be permanently preserved, less than five years after its creation. Detailed feasibility studies will determine the best methods of ongoing conservation.
November 17, 2025 at 2:08 PM
NEWS: In a moving and poignant case study for modern heritage, the government has announced that the National Covid Memorial Wall in Lambeth will be permanently preserved, less than five years after its creation. Detailed feasibility studies will determine the best methods of ongoing conservation.
EVENT: C20’s Autumn Lecture Series on Buildings for Sport & Leisure continues next week, with Professor Iain Borden exploring the development and conservation of UK skateparks.
🗓️ Thu 20 Nov 2025, 6.30pm – 8pm
📍 Cowcross St Gallery + Online
🎟️ Book tickets: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...
🗓️ Thu 20 Nov 2025, 6.30pm – 8pm
📍 Cowcross St Gallery + Online
🎟️ Book tickets: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...
November 16, 2025 at 6:15 PM
EVENT: C20’s Autumn Lecture Series on Buildings for Sport & Leisure continues next week, with Professor Iain Borden exploring the development and conservation of UK skateparks.
🗓️ Thu 20 Nov 2025, 6.30pm – 8pm
📍 Cowcross St Gallery + Online
🎟️ Book tickets: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...
🗓️ Thu 20 Nov 2025, 6.30pm – 8pm
📍 Cowcross St Gallery + Online
🎟️ Book tickets: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...
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Celebrated as an iconic piece of late 20th-century design, the station has been added to England’s National Heritage List https://www.wallpaper.com/architecture/public-buildings/southwark-station-grade-ii-listed
November 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Celebrated as an iconic piece of late 20th-century design, the station has been added to England’s National Heritage List https://www.wallpaper.com/architecture/public-buildings/southwark-station-grade-ii-listed
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Buildings of all historical periods have been sacrificed on the altar of ‘build, baby, build’.
✍️ Calvin Po
✍️ Calvin Po
Labour's war on heritage
Britain’s heritage is slowly going up in smoke. Medlock Mill was Manchester’s oldest standing textile mill until it burnt down in June. It joins Grade I-listed Woolton Hall – destroyed by a catastrophic...
www.spectator.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Buildings of all historical periods have been sacrificed on the altar of ‘build, baby, build’.
✍️ Calvin Po
✍️ Calvin Po
Good news Friday: A rare Grade II listed D-Day floating Whale roadway has been recovered from Southampton Docks, ahead of a restoration project. The 80ft section was a vital component of the Mulberry harbours used during the 1944 Normandy landings, and is one of only two known to survive in the UK.
November 14, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Good news Friday: A rare Grade II listed D-Day floating Whale roadway has been recovered from Southampton Docks, ahead of a restoration project. The 80ft section was a vital component of the Mulberry harbours used during the 1944 Normandy landings, and is one of only two known to survive in the UK.
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Southwark Tube station has become the first on the Jubilee line extension to be listed by the Government
'Jewel in the crown' Tube station on Jubilee line extension gets Grade II listing
www.standard.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Southwark Tube station has become the first on the Jubilee line extension to be listed by the Government
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Southwark Underground Station, designed by MacCormac Jamieson Prichard (MJP) as part of London’s Jubilee Line extension in the 1990s, has been Grade II-listed
MJP’s ‘memorable and theatrical’ Southwark Tube station listed
MJP’s ‘memorable and theatrical’ Southwark Tube station listed
www.architectsjournal.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Southwark Underground Station, designed by MacCormac Jamieson Prichard (MJP) as part of London’s Jubilee Line extension in the 1990s, has been Grade II-listed
NEWS: We’re thrilled to announce that Southwark Station on the Jubilee Line Extension (MacCormac Jamieson Prichard, 1994-99) has finally been Grade II listed, nine years after C20 submitted an application and a quarter of a century after opening to the public.
➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/jubilee...
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November 13, 2025 at 10:30 AM
NEWS: We’re thrilled to announce that Southwark Station on the Jubilee Line Extension (MacCormac Jamieson Prichard, 1994-99) has finally been Grade II listed, nine years after C20 submitted an application and a quarter of a century after opening to the public.
➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/jubilee...
➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/jubilee...
Georgian Bath? How about Brutalist Bath!
Sign the petition to save the fabulous little Church of the Good Shepherd in Batheaston (1966-67) from demolition, and allow the local community to buy it instead.
✍🏼 c.org/PdMGmFFhqZ
Sign the petition to save the fabulous little Church of the Good Shepherd in Batheaston (1966-67) from demolition, and allow the local community to buy it instead.
✍🏼 c.org/PdMGmFFhqZ
November 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Georgian Bath? How about Brutalist Bath!
Sign the petition to save the fabulous little Church of the Good Shepherd in Batheaston (1966-67) from demolition, and allow the local community to buy it instead.
✍🏼 c.org/PdMGmFFhqZ
Sign the petition to save the fabulous little Church of the Good Shepherd in Batheaston (1966-67) from demolition, and allow the local community to buy it instead.
✍🏼 c.org/PdMGmFFhqZ
EVENT: C20’s Autumn Lecture Series on Sports Architecture continues with Mike Hall, partner at FaulknerBrowns, exploring the practice’s pioneering and playful work on Leisure Centres.
🗓️ Thu 13 Nov, 6.30pm – 8pm
📍 Cowcross St Gallery + Online
🎟️ Book Tickets: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...
🗓️ Thu 13 Nov, 6.30pm – 8pm
📍 Cowcross St Gallery + Online
🎟️ Book Tickets: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...
November 11, 2025 at 10:41 AM
EVENT: C20’s Autumn Lecture Series on Sports Architecture continues with Mike Hall, partner at FaulknerBrowns, exploring the practice’s pioneering and playful work on Leisure Centres.
🗓️ Thu 13 Nov, 6.30pm – 8pm
📍 Cowcross St Gallery + Online
🎟️ Book Tickets: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...
🗓️ Thu 13 Nov, 6.30pm – 8pm
📍 Cowcross St Gallery + Online
🎟️ Book Tickets: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...
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Just 45 cooling towers left in Britain, all but one in the process of decommission and demolition. If, like me, you are fond of these silent sculptural giants scattered across the landscape, you will love @c20society.bsky.social supersized new book.
November 11, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Just 45 cooling towers left in Britain, all but one in the process of decommission and demolition. If, like me, you are fond of these silent sculptural giants scattered across the landscape, you will love @c20society.bsky.social supersized new book.
C20's Cooling Towers selected by The Modern House as one of six new titles on the brilliance of 20th and 21st century design.
➡️ themodernhouse.com/journal/six-...
➡️ themodernhouse.com/journal/six-...
November 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
C20's Cooling Towers selected by The Modern House as one of six new titles on the brilliance of 20th and 21st century design.
➡️ themodernhouse.com/journal/six-...
➡️ themodernhouse.com/journal/six-...
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The mid-century landmarks of the capital are being reassessed and refurbished instead of demolished
A brutalist London icon gets a glow-up
The mid-century landmarks of the capital are being reassessed and refurbished instead of demolished
www.thetimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
The mid-century landmarks of the capital are being reassessed and refurbished instead of demolished
🦛 🐋 🐢 The Poole play sculptures have come out of hibernation!
Originally installed in the town’s Dolphin Centre (formerly the Arndale Centre) in 1969, the wooden Hippo, Turtle, and Whale sculptures were by renowned artist Peter Hand (1929-2024). 🧵
Originally installed in the town’s Dolphin Centre (formerly the Arndale Centre) in 1969, the wooden Hippo, Turtle, and Whale sculptures were by renowned artist Peter Hand (1929-2024). 🧵
November 7, 2025 at 10:57 AM
🦛 🐋 🐢 The Poole play sculptures have come out of hibernation!
Originally installed in the town’s Dolphin Centre (formerly the Arndale Centre) in 1969, the wooden Hippo, Turtle, and Whale sculptures were by renowned artist Peter Hand (1929-2024). 🧵
Originally installed in the town’s Dolphin Centre (formerly the Arndale Centre) in 1969, the wooden Hippo, Turtle, and Whale sculptures were by renowned artist Peter Hand (1929-2024). 🧵