Built originally as Trinity Congregational Church by Cecil Handisyde and Douglas Rogers Stark and part of Festival of Britain ‘Live’ architecture exhibition. Converted 1975-6 by Edward Mills into ...
When Hugh Casson and Neville Conder’s Ismaili Centre opened in 1985, it took a prominent place within South Kensington’s Victorian elegance, and symbolised the Ismaili Muslim community’s identity and ...
The Risk List is the Societies’ annual compilation of the top 10 most threatened twentieth and twenty-first century buildings across the UK. Our 2023-24 list includes a Bengali women’s centre in ...
I find it hard to believe that Holland House was built during the first world war (although the Netherlands were neutral). Designed for a Dutch shipping company by Berlage, the eminent Dutch architect ...
The Barbican is the greatest work of British planning and architecture of the 20th century, in the great tradition of bloody-minded English Baroque from Vanburgh and Hawksmoor via Nash. In the 1950s ...
These large, looming discs, which locals fondly call “concrete ears” but which are perhaps better known as sound mirrors, sit facing out to sea at Greatstone, Kent. In a perilous condition, following ...
Finsbury Health Centre was arguably modern architecture’s most important single achievement in England in the first half of the 20th century. This realisation of a radical humanitarian brief for a ...
Designed in 1965 by the architectural practice of Sir Basil Spence, Bonnington and Collins (and attributed to John S. Bonnington), the low informal group is built of brindled brick and red tile.