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No.1 Shed is a vast steel structure built on farmland used by the Royal Flying Corps. It was used to construct airships, but the first – the R31 – was commissioned only five days before the armistice.
This database was initially compiled by the C20 Society, with the aid of a grant from Historic England, in 2014. C20 churches are incredibly varied and interesting, and many remain under appreciated ...
C20 Cymru is celebrating another success, with the designation of three outstanding buildings at Aberystwyth Arts Centre in Ceredigion, on the Penglais Campus of the University of Aberystwyth.
As Bradford prepares to become 2025 UK City of Culture, C20 Society has partnered with Ian Chalk Architects, to produce an ambitious new proposal for the empty and abandoned Richard Dunn Sports Centre ...
The Scottish architect James Robb Scott, (1882 – 1965) designed a string of railways stations – from Bishopstone to Bromley North, Horsham to Hastings, Ramsgate to Richmond – but his Art Deco ...
Holborn Library is a milestone in the history of the modern public library, both as the first large, multi-functional, post-war library in London and for its pioneering architecture, with an elegant ...
When John Betjeman addressed the Solent Protection Society in the days before construction began on Fawley Power Station (1964-71, Farmer and Dark) he spoke of the “new architecture of power”. At ...
I have a personal passion for the RCA building, designed by a team including my father, Robert Goodden, who, though trained as an architect, was Professor of Silver and Jewellery, and Pro-Rector of ...
On the east bank of the Meuse, built into the remains of the city’s ramparts near the Port Chaussée, is the Monument aux enfants de Verdun morts pour la France inaugurated in 1928. The monument stands ...
Lyons Israel Ellis, though well known as a finishing school for the famed likes of Stirling, Gowan, Colquhoun et al, were the sort of Brutalists that didn’t get Yale scholarships, shiny monographs or ...
Allbrook House and Roehampton Library, Alton Estate, Roehampton, Diamond Geezer, Flickr ‘The best low-cost housing in the world’ was how the American critic G E Kidder-Smith described Alton West, the ...