Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station, Nottinghamshire - BDP, 1963-67 Image © David Noton
💥12 months ago Britain's last coal-fired power station, Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire, shut down after 50 years powering the national grid. We can now confirm that C20's listing application for Ratcliffe's 8 cooling towers has been rejected by DCMS, while their demolition has been approved.
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NEWS: C20 is backing a campaign to save a pioneering 1980s Black community centre in London from redevelopment, and has supported a listing application. Bridge Park is a key example of the community architecture movement and adaptive reuse of industrial heritage.
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Good news from the #C20RiskList: The former National Centre for Popular Music in Sheffield has been added to the South Yorkshire Local Heritage List, as the campaign to safeguard the distinctive 'kettles' building from potential redevelopment gathers momentum.
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Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Liverpool - Sir Edwin Lutyens (1933-41), Frederick Gibberd and Partners (1962-67). Image credit: Historic England
Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Liverpool - Sir Edwin Lutyens (1933-41), Frederick Gibberd and Partners (1962-67). Image credit: Historic England
Cosmic Wigwam: Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral has been upgraded to Grade I listed status, following support from C20 Society. Designed by Sir Frederick Gibberd and built 1962-67, the modernist cathedral is a great vessel of post-war glass, sculpture and design.
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Eid Mubarak 🌙
Glasgow Central Mosque has been listed at Category A following a public consultation and support from C20. Designed by architects W.M. Copeland & Assoc. (1977-84), the Postmodern building is the first and largest purpose-built mosque in Scotland.
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Congratulations #CPFC! 🏆
Did you know, Crystal Palace Park hosted the F.A. Cup Final 21 times between 1895 and 1914, with crowds often over 100,000.
Then as now, history is made at the Palace.
(Painting by Charles Cundall: 1926 3rd round tie between Corinthians and Man City)
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Image credit: Richard Davies
Image credit: Richard Davies
NEWS | It's Coming Home: Following a C20 appeal, a Future Systems classroom pod in Richmond has been saved from demolition by the Kaplický Foundation.
It is now set to be restored and become the first posthumous Jan Kaplický building in his native Czech Republic.
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"The money in Britain always seems to flow in one direction. If these outstanding buildings were in London, would they already have been restored or rehabilitated?"
Read about C20's Risk List in the @theguardian.com, and our fight to protect modern heritage.
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🚨 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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👀 London Calling
📍Shoreditch / Southwark / Dalston
Reuse Them or Lose Them
Protect Britain's modern heritage:
Read the #C20RiskList from 09.04.25
(Graphic design Studio Hunter, illustration Mark Long, in partnership with Build Hollywood)
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👉🏼 C20 JOB ALERT: Want to help shape the future of heritage?We're recruiting a new Head of Casework to join our high profile team. This is a crucial role, and one requiring a high degree of skill, knowledge and integrity.
More info: c20society.org.uk/work-with-us
Application deadline: Mon 7 April.
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NEWS: The former Debenhams building in Bristol has been transformed into 'Shredenhams' - a new pop-up skatepark in the empty retail spaces.
In 2024 consent was given for demolition, despite strong objections from C20 and Historic England. Could it still be saved? 🛹
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Welsh Wildlife Centre, Pembrokeshire - Niall Phillips Architects, 1993-94. Image credit: Niall Phillips
Welsh Wildlife Centre, Pembrokeshire - Niall Phillips Architects, 1993-94. Image credit: Niall Phillips
Welsh Wildlife Centre, Pembrokeshire - Niall Phillips Architects, 1993-94. Image credit: Niall Phillips
NEWS: C20 has made a listing application for the Welsh Wildlife Centre in Pembrokeshire, following new plans that would harm the early eco-modernist building.
Designed by Niall Phillips in 1993-94, the Centre was featured in our recent #ComingOfAge campaign.
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Stoke Poges Memorial Gardens, Buckinghamshire - 1934-39. Registered Grade I
⚠️We join with our fellow Amenity Societies in expressing deep concern that the government is considering removing The Gardens Trust as a statutory consultee within the English planning system. Their expert advice is vital in protecting our historic parks and gardens.
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‘Homenaje a México’ - an extraordinarily beautiful 325 sqm geometric stained glass window, at Parroquia del Señor de la Resurreccion church in Mexico City. Created by op-artist Victor Vasarely in 1974. #StainedGlassSunday
Not recent, but these Millennium era projects all had that dubious moniker:
- London Eye
- Glasgow Science Centre Tower
- The Spire in Dublin
No contest: Crystal Palace Subway!
NEWS: From John Lewis to Lewis Hamilton?
C20 has welcomed bold new plans that would see the vacant Norco House department store in Aberdeen converted into a multi-level indoor go-karting circuit. The brutalist ziggurat was featured in C20’s 2023-24 Risk List
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Image credit: Freedom Leisure
Image credit: Freedom Leisure
NEWS: C20 and @c20cymru.bsky.social are celebrating the 5th Leisure Centre to be listed as a result of our ongoing campaign, and the first example in Wales.
Wrexham Waterworld (1967-70) is known for its hyperbolic paraboloid roof, one of the largest ever built.
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Mexican functionalism, blue sky, and cacti. Bliss.
Museo Casa Estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo | Juan O’Gorman, 1931-32
A remarkable 1936 sculptural frieze by Isamu Noguchi, his first public commission, on the fate of the worker amid rapid industrialisation and the global rise of fascism.
It covers a 72ft wall in a rather forgotten upstairs space at the Abelardo Rodríguez Market in Mexico City.
The stunning Morisco (or Moorish) Kiosk.
Created as Mexico’s pavilion for the 1884 World’s Fair in New Orleans, it moved to Chicago and on to the 1902 St Louis Exposition, before finding a permanent home at Santa Maria la Ribera in Mexico City. It was declared a National Artistic Monument in 1972.
Image © Morley von Sternberg
NEWS: C20 has renewed its 35 year-long campaign to designate the Hayward Gallery, Queen Elizabeth Hall, and Purcell Rooms at the Southbank Centre, as a Certificate of Immunity from listing the brutalist arts complex expires.
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‘This is the building which often prompts the response “I can’t believe it’s not listed”. Our message for DCMS and the heritage minister, Chris Bryant MP, is: do the right thing.’
C20 in @theguardian.com on the Southbank Centre campaign.
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Angel Square Islington, before and after.
The previous building wasn’t perfect, but with upgrading and an activated street frontage, it had more to give. What a waste.
Image David Chipperfield Architects © Peter Cook
Image David Chipperfield Architects © Jeremy Cockayne
Image David Chipperfield Architects © Jeremy Cockayne
NEWS: C20 Society has applied to list the first UK building by David Chipperfield Architects.
Built 1987-89, their former studio and offices in Camden combines influences from Le Corbusian-style modernism and traditional Japanese architecture.
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‘Such murals are wonderfully creative, visually rich chapters of our national story that have for too long been overlooked,’
C20 in World of Interiors on the restoration of Gülsün Erbil’s Equality-Harmony mural at the Broadwater Farm Estate.
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