The Urban Ballet of Preston Bus Station
by Christina c20society
Voices in support of Preston Bus Station are multiplying by the day and the Society’s fight to save the building continues. Three weeks ago the World Monuments Fund accepted… More…
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Steve Jobs: architects model and preservationists nightmare?
by catherine croft
“Jobs’ lesson for architects and architecture students is to hold your nerve. If you can sense your client’s desires , design in a few surprise- and – delights,… More…
Spurious TS Eliot hooks?
by catherine croft
By curious coincidence we’ve had two “T.S. Eliot was here” cases seeking C20 support and intervention in the last couple of weeks: Eliot was in Margate and East… More…
Mrs Watts prefigured 60s concrete murals?
by catherine croft
Just been to the newly revamped Watts Gallery, near Guilford, which is looking magnificent (architects were ZMMA). I remember trips here as a child, the damp, the crumbling partitions,… More…
no more grimy photos……
by catherine croft
C20 magazine cover Just seen the proofs of our newly redesigned magazine—Simon Esterson has done a great job for us. I think it keeps all the quirky appeal of… More…
C20 does Big Draw
by catherine croft
Saturday saw C2o participating in the Big Draw for the first time, in collaboration with OurHut’s celebration of Stockwell Bus Garage–see our website for details. A specially chartered… More…
glamerous night shots
by catherine croft
The first of these is Bryan Jefferson’s Brutalist Moore St Electricity Substation in Sheffield—with a lighting scheme which has turned it into a dramatic local landmark, and the second… More…
Bruatialism is “fashionably unfashionable”
by catherine croft
I like the notion that Brutalism has progressed to the point of being “fashionably unfashionable” (according to Steve Parnell in the AJ 6/10, p44) - whereas Post Modernism… More…
cheap arco floor lamp anyone?
by catherine croft
So I read that Samantha Cameron has bought a “replica” Arco Floor Lamp — designed by Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni in 1962 and still in production by… More…
love these Kidbrooke estate photos
by catherine croft
Photographer Anna Bachelor has pasted up large scale photographs of the few residents still remaining, on the walls of the access balconies of Kidbrooke estate in south-eat London…. More…