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  • 81: Embassy Court saved from ruin: Today works start a....

    ... scheme that will sensitively reinstate the building as the most important British modernist seaside ... invest in the works, applications for listed building consent for replacement windows and services were ... enthusiasm. We are pleased to see that Wells Coates buildings are currently being appreciated and restored – after Lawn Road (also known as the Isokon

  • 82: Scottish post-war gem threatened by commercial sc....

    ... Twentieth Century Society is deeply concerned about a current planning application for the Grade A-listed St ... of decay and failed planning applications, the building’s owner, the Archdiocese, has made another effort to ... vaults and other soft surfaces and would leave the building as a mere skeleton. The proposal also includes a ... crumbling Victorian bridge and the ruinous Seminary

  • 83: Commonwealth Institute threatened by de-listing.

    ... the Commonwealth Institute, a Grade II* listed building on Kensington High Street. The Commonwealth Institute is an outstanding building of the post-war era and reflects the spirit of the Festival of Britain. The building is surprisingly little altered and the qualities that ... of its kind at the time of its construction. The

  • 84: 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. 26/11/07 Unlawful ... Heads bust all listing records for public sculpture 07/06/07 Scotland’s best post war building now on the World Monuments Fund watch list for most endangered

  • 85: Society News.

    Society News 18/11/02 Proposals to demolish key buildings at University of Wolverhampton ‹‹ First ‹ Previous 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next › Last ›› Society News Archive 2009 16 item(s) 2008 7 item(s) 2007 8 ...

  • 86: Put Forward.

    ... exterior, built with a truly functional approach. The building has been neglected but planned refurbishment works ... The Society has requested that prior to that the building ought to be assessed for listing to prevent ... Kingston Upon Hull, Yorkshire; David Harvey, 1931 The building’s owners are planning some demolition works. We have put this handsome Neo-Romanesque

  • 87: Commonwealth Institute - Government proposes delis....

    ... did not mean that the future of this excellent building was secure.   What we didn’t expect was the ... news of a proposed parliamentary bill to delist the building—a sledgehammer of a solution to bulldoze through what ... that this is one of the two most important post-war buildings of that period in London.”  There was nothing to suggest her personal endorsement of the

  • 88: Society News.

    Society News 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 sculpture public! ... under threat! 29/09/06 Milton Court Can be Saved! 26/06/06 Richmond's Twentieth Century

  • 89: Congress House, London WC1.

    ... 2002 Congress House, (Trades Union Congress Memorial Building), Great Russell Street, London WC1. Architect David ... Congress House is one of the most important British buildings of the 1950s. Like the Royal Festival Hall, it is a ... 1920s designs of Le Corbusier (mostly the ones for buildings that were never built), there is a genuine sense of ... from a strict grid. It was one of the first post-war

  • 90: Supported.

    Supported Hilda Besse Building, St. Antony’s College, Woodstock Road, Oxford; ... the Gatehouse for St Anne’s College, the Hilda Besse building is a well-balanced composition, detailed and executed ... ingenious breaking up of the apparent symmetry of the building both on plan and on elevation and an experimental approach to concrete design. The
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