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  • 61: Major example of HKPA mastery listed at Grade II.

    ... Century Society is delighted that the Hilda Besse building, St Antony’s College, Oxford, by Howell, Killick, ... II. Designed and realised in the period 1962-71, the building is a key work by HKPA, who had worked for the London ... HKPA designed a number of interesting college buildings during the course of the 1960s and their work ... supported the proposed listing of the Hilda Besse

  • 62: Put Forward.

    ... employed as successfully as in some of the Smithsons’ buildings and the split open plan predates later ... 1961-2 The Solar Pavilion is one of the iconic buildings by the Smithsons and arguably their best private ... Sergison Bates Architects have restored the building recently and have applied for an additional garden ... private house design. Plans to extend the rear of the

  • 63: Midland Hotel Morecambe update.

    ... I regret to have to report that The Post and Mail building by the John Madin Design Partnership has again been turned down for listing and is now likely to be demolished. This building, a tower on a podium inspired by the Lever building in New York, is considered to be John Madin's best work. It is a

  • 64: Kingsway Health Centre listed as rare example of 1....

    ... English Heritage praised the Moderne style building for its striking design – which features fine Art ... shortly before the outbreak of WWII in 1939, the building served the Widnes area as a health centre until its closure in 2006. The Society put the building forward for listing after local campaigners informed ... confident that the best elements of this impressive

  • 65: Turned Down.

    Turned Down Tote Building, Catford Greyhound Stadium, Lewisham, London; GE Marshall & Partners, 1932 The building which was constructed to display the odds towards the stadium and to show a faux residential façade towards the adjacent park was turned down as it was felt the building was curious but not important enough to warrant listing. While English Heritage's advice was ...

  • 66: Press Releases.

    Press Releases The Twentieth Century Society campaigns for all styles of buildings of the twentieth century. Our archive of press releases can be read here. 07/06/07 Scotland’s best post war building now on the World Monuments Fund watch list for most endangered buildings worldwide 11/03/07 60’s icon faces extinction 20/02/07 Keep public ... Milton Court Can be Saved! 26/06/06 Richmond's Twentieth Century

  • 67: Other Listings.

    ... in charge), 1981-4 Within the Scottish context there are fewer buildings of this type of new commercial architecture. It has clear references to the oeuvre of Frank Lloyd Wright and the late India Buildings by Le Corbusier. There is a sophisticated complexity to the headquarters building regarding the composition of the different facades. The fact that it has been built on a tartan grid was considered particularly interesting. The

  • 68: Turned Down.

    ... Heritage had many good things to say about the building–and indeed struggled to place it context prompting them to promise a ‘resumption of research into this period’, the building was turned down, in the main, because of some later alterations, though EH also noted that an inability to ascribe the

  • 69: Press Releases.

    Press Releases The Twentieth Century Society campaigns for all styles of buildings of the twentieth century. Our archive of press releases can be read here. 18/03/04 Crystal Palace, Britain 's first sports centre to be demolished. South London's best public building is threatened 17/03/04 Government announces Public Inquiry into demolition of C20th house ‹‹ First ‹ Previous 1 2 3 Next › Last ›› Press ...

  • 70: Press Releases.

    Press Releases The Twentieth Century Society campaigns for all styles of buildings of the twentieth century. Our archive of press releases can be read here. 16/12/05 Scotland's best post war building desecrated 12/12/05 Lord Stratford lobbies for National Sports ... brewery under threat 24/05/05 Gone to the dogs: Catford’s Tote
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