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Hungerford Primary School, Hungerford Road, Islington, London; ILEA, 1968-70

This experimental school is one of the most daring that came out of ILEA’s design department – the use of fair faced concrete blocks and exposed structure is employed as successfully as in some of the Smithsons’ buildings and the split open plan predates later deconstructivist designs. Islington is determined to replace the school after it has been run without the necessary maintenance.

Solar Pavilion, Upper Lawn, West Tisbury, Wiltshire; Alison and Peter Smithson, 1961-2

The Solar Pavilion is one of the iconic buildings by the Smithsons and arguably their best private house. The Smithsons built it for themselves as a weekend retreat and their family life there has been thoroughly documented and published. Sergison Bates Architects have restored the building recently and have applied for an additional garden pavilion whose design has been altered to an appropriately modest scale after the Society intervened.

South Winds, Cryfield Grange Road, Coventry, West Midlands ; Robert Harvey, 1965

South Winds is a most elegant American influenced house and another of Robert Harvey’s successes in private house design. Plans to extend the rear of the building would mean the loss of its clear horizontal lines.

Church Rate Corner, Malting Lane, Cambridge; Baillie Scott, 1924, Grade II

This exceptionally intact late masterpiece of Baillie Scott has been carefully restored and is in outstandingly good condition with almost no alterations. The building’s setting is currently threatened with a large development on a neighbouring site.

Bentley Farm, Harvey’s Lane, Little Horsted, Wealden, Sussex; Raymond Erith, 1961-71, II

Erith’s addition to an existing C18 building and his outbuildings are of exceptionally high standard and should be upgraded. Ownership of the estate is in limbo after the council, given the buildings as a donation, put them on the market.

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