Cover star of Chemical Brothers album – Harlow's Grade II* Lady of Fatima, (1960) by Gerard Goalen. Unassuming from the outside, but 💥inside. Visited with @c20society.bsky.social

New Towns Mark One by the late Elain Harwood, ed. @alistairfair.bsky.social provides the first detailed architectural survey of the ‘mark one’ new towns. ➡️ Read the interview with Alistair about the book on the LUP blog: bit.ly/HE-NewTowns @c20society.bsky.social @geraintfranklin.bsky.social

The joy of Brutalism. A @c20society.bsky.social celebration! A lot of love in the (Purcell) Room this afternoon.

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Fabulous afternoon at Southbank Centre: Brutal(ism) Love and Hate. Packed out audience. Opportunity to take notes and photos added bonus 🎊 #Brutalism Hosted @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social - Panel: @grindrod.bsky.social , Eva Branscome Rhael ‘LionHeart’ Cape, Noris Obijiaku

Richard and Su Roger's seminal house in London "gifted to the nation": https://www.dezeen.com/2026/09/09/22-parkside-richard-su-rogers-national-trust/

The modernist Rogers House, or 22 Parkside, in Wimbledon, has been given to the nation by the Rogers family www.wallpaper.com/architecture...

Richard Rogers’ pioneering Modernist home, 22 Parkside in Wimbledon, is to open to the public after being gifted to the nation by the late architect’s family

Richard Rogers’ 22 Parkside home ‘given to the nation’ by family

Richard Rogers’ 22 Parkside home ‘given to the nation’ by family

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NEWS: The Society is thrilled that 22 Parkside in Wimbledon, the pioneering Grade II* listed modernist home by Richard and Su Rogers, has been gifted to the nation and taken into the care of the @nationaltrust.org.uk ➡️Read more: c20society.org.uk/news/richard...

BREAKING NEWS: We're delighted to announce that 1 Embankment Place (1986-91) in the City of Westminster, Sir Terry Farrell's Post-Modern 'Palace on the River', has been Grade II listed by DCMS following support from C20 Society. ➡️ Read more: c20society.org.uk/news/farrell...

EVENT: Join C20 and Adam Nathaniel Furman for the launch of the new book 'Chromatic Architecture' and a special lecture exploring why are architects afraid of colour? 📅 Tuesday 3 November 2026 at 6:30pm – 8pm 📍BDP Clerkenwell, EC1V 4LJ 🎟️ Book tickets: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...

Brutal alert: Our Sun Sep 27th 4pm @c20society.bsky.social Brutalism event - where else but at the Southbank Centre's Purcell Room - newly listed! only has a few tickets left! www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/bru...

Brutal(ism) Love and Hate | Southbank Centre

The UK's largest arts centre & the heart of London's cultural life.

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EVENT: Join us for C20 Open Mic - Volume 4 🗓️ Thu 15 Oct 2026, 6:30-7:45pm 📍 BDP Clerkenwell, EC1V 4LJ 🎟️ Book tickets: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx... Its the autumn instalment of out short talks from early-career researchers and practitioners. All tickets just £5, including 🍷

Cooling towers! Rightly celebrated by Artist Prunella Clough in Pallant House’s excellent exhibition on British landscapes. @c20society.bsky.social

Housing for all. Art for all. Sixteen storey mosaic murals by Poole Tiles on Seaward Tower and Harbour Tower, Gosport - Kenneth Barden & J E Tyrrell, 1963 📷 James O Davies, Historic England

NEWS: A sad update from our Risk List 2025. The former National Wildflower Centre in Court Hey Park, Merseyside (Hodder + Partners, 2000) has now been demolished. In its place…an area of tarmac. What an utter waste. This idiosyncratic 520ft long building should have been imaginatively repurposed.

The leaflet for the opening of one of the UK's greatest Brutalist buildings, Preston Bus Station, on 12 October 1969. The subject of a long campaign to save & restore, the bus station was finally Listed in 2013 & subsequently restored. #architecture @c20society.bsky.social ↘️ flic.kr/p/2swZJGZ

EVENT: Join C20 and friends for a very special date at the Siuthban Centre - Brutal(ism) Love and Hate, ft. @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social, @grindrod.bsky.social, Mr Chuck, Lionheart and more. 📆 Sun 27 Sep, 4pm 📍Purcell Room, Southbank Centre 🎫 Tickets: www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/bru...

Outrageously neat typography seen on @c20society.bsky.social Blackheath walk with architect Ana Sutherland.

NEWS: We’re delighted to announce that following our recent 2026 AGM, Sandy Rattray has been elected as the new Chair of the Twentieth Century Society. ➡️ Read more: c20society.org.uk/news/sandy-r...

Fascinating @c20society.bsky.social talk Sep 2 upcoming about GLC poster design from the 80s. In person or online: And on the right is one I kept as a teenager and still have framed at home. secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...

I have enjoyed reading this by @c20society.bsky.social. Though I was struck that whilst it lists almost every type of civil amenity: Parliaments, libraries, schools, universities, galleries & theatres; there isn't a single Court, police station or prison. I think that says a lot about priorities.

Good News Friday: The historic Electric Cinema (1909) on Station Street in Birmingham has been officially added to the city’s Local Heritage List. The UK’s oldest working cinema before abruptly closing in Feb 2024, campaigners have opposed plans to demolish it for a 50 storey residential tower.

In the 1980s the Greater London Council embarked upon a radical experiment in how to run the city, making use of poster campaigns and public art to take aim against racism, sexism and nuclear war. Hazel Atashroo & @rosamundlilywest.bsky.social discuss at @c20society.bsky.social

☎️ To celebrate 40 years since the very first telephone box in Britain was listed, C20 has revived its famous campaign and submitted listing applications for four more quirky and historic kiosks: in Scotland's Western Isles, the Peak District, and the Cotswolds. ➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/quirky-...

'They will never be for the purists': The relentless, referential and upbeat joy of postmodern buildings www.countrylife.co.uk/architecture...

'They will never be for the purists': The relentless, referential and upbeat joy of postmodern buildings

As many of postmodern architectures finest buildings enter their fourth decade, Jack Watkins makes the case for why this often overlooked architectural style warrants further study.

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NEWS: Yes, Prime Minister? The RC Church of St Oswald & St Edmund Arrowsmith (J Sydney Brocklesby, 1925-30) in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Wigan, has been upgraded from Grade II to Grade II* by DCMS. The French Romanesque church contains an unrivalled collection of stained glass by artist Harry Clarke.

🗓️ For August’s Building of the Month, Irma Naira explores the monumental Villa Ottolenghi (1974-78) near Lake Garda - one of the final projects by Italian architect Carlo Scarpa. ➡️ Read more: c20society.org.uk/building-of-...

☎️ #OTD 6 Aug 1986 a K3 telephone kiosk (1929), located outside the Parrott House at London Zoo, became the very first listed telephone box in Britain. It followed a landmark campaign by the Thirties Society (forerunner to C20), launched the previous year in response to BT’s modernisation programme.

NEWS: C20 Society has backed new plans to convert the Brutalist former Church of the Good Shepherd (1966-67) in Batheaston, Somerset, into a day nursery and offices, saving it from a previously consented demolition following a community campaign. ➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/nursery...

Lost architecture featured in Vanishing Japan (2026, Thames & Hudson) by Naomi Pollock. Book launch on Thursday with @c20society.bsky.social, few in-person & online tickets still available!

EVENT: Join C20 and tour guide Andrew Jackson for a late summer weekend trip to 20th Century Liverpool. From the Cathedrals to the Philharmonic, the University to the Queensway Tunnel, we're in our Mersey Paradise! 🗓️ Fri 18 - Sun 20 Sep 2026 🎟️ Tickets: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...