💥12 months ago Britain's last coal-fired power station, Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire, shut down after 50 years powering the national grid. We can now confirm that C20's listing application for Ratcliffe's 8 cooling towers has been rejected by DCMS, while their demolition has been approved.

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NEWS: C20 is backing a campaign to save a pioneering 1980s Black community centre in London from redevelopment, and has supported a listing application. Bridge Park is a key example of the community architecture movement and adaptive reuse of industrial heritage. ➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/build-d...

Good news from the #C20RiskList: The former National Centre for Popular Music in Sheffield has been added to the South Yorkshire Local Heritage List, as the campaign to safeguard the distinctive 'kettles' building from potential redevelopment gathers momentum. ➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/local-l...

Cosmic Wigwam: Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral has been upgraded to Grade I listed status, following support from C20 Society. Designed by Sir Frederick Gibberd and built 1962-67, the modernist cathedral is a great vessel of post-war glass, sculpture and design. ➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/cosmic-...

Eid Mubarak 🌙 Glasgow Central Mosque has been listed at Category A following a public consultation and support from C20. Designed by architects W.M. Copeland & Assoc. (1977-84), the Postmodern building is the first and largest purpose-built mosque in Scotland. ➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/first-p...

Congratulations #CPFC! 🏆 Did you know, Crystal Palace Park hosted the F.A. Cup Final 21 times between 1895 and 1914, with crowds often over 100,000. Then as now, history is made at the Palace. (Painting by Charles Cundall: 1926 3rd round tie between Corinthians and Man City)

NEWS | It's Coming Home: Following a C20 appeal, a Future Systems classroom pod in Richmond has been saved from demolition by the Kaplický Foundation. It is now set to be restored and become the first posthumous Jan Kaplický building in his native Czech Republic. ➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/its-com...

🗞️ Reuse Them or Lose Them: Read all about it! Haven’t thumbed through the #C20RiskList yet? You can download a digital copy from our website, or order a printed copy from the C20 Shop for just £2. Members will receive one with the next issue of our magazine. shop.c20society.org.uk/products/the...

"The money in Britain always seems to flow in one direction. If these outstanding buildings were in London, would they already have been restored or rehabilitated?" Read about C20's Risk List in the @theguardian.com, and our fight to protect modern heritage. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

🚨 Reuse Them or Lose Them: C20's Risk List campaign 2025 is here! From a Millennium pop music museum in Sheffield to a Bauhaus-inspired 1930s department store in Bradford, a 1970s brutalist football stand in Newcastle, to a 1980s ‘High-Tech Nissen hut in London. c20society.org.uk/buildings-at...

👀 London Calling 📍Shoreditch / Southwark / Dalston Reuse Them or Lose Them Protect Britain's modern heritage: Read the #C20RiskList from 09.04.25 (Graphic design Studio Hunter, illustration Mark Long, in partnership with Build Hollywood)

👉🏼 C20 JOB ALERT: Want to help shape the future of heritage?We're recruiting a new Head of Casework to join our high profile team. This is a crucial role, and one requiring a high degree of skill, knowledge and integrity. More info: c20society.org.uk/work-with-us Application deadline: Mon 7 April.

NEWS: The former Debenhams building in Bristol has been transformed into 'Shredenhams' - a new pop-up skatepark in the empty retail spaces. In 2024 consent was given for demolition, despite strong objections from C20 and Historic England. Could it still be saved? 🛹 c20society.org.uk/news/shreden...

📖 We have not one but TWO amazing new C20 @batsfordbooks.bsky.social coming this spring / summer. You can now pre-order 20th Century Seaside Architecture by @seasideferry.bsky.social, and 100 20th Century Sports & Leisure Buildings directly from the C20 Shop! 🛒 c20society.org.uk/shop

NEWS: C20 has made a listing application for the Welsh Wildlife Centre in Pembrokeshire, following new plans that would harm the early eco-modernist building. Designed by Niall Phillips in 1993-94, the Centre was featured in our recent #ComingOfAge campaign. ➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/coming-...

⚠️We join with our fellow Amenity Societies in expressing deep concern that the government is considering removing The Gardens Trust as a statutory consultee within the English planning system. Their expert advice is vital in protecting our historic parks and gardens. Read more: bit.ly/3R8MCtl

‘Homenaje a México’ - an extraordinarily beautiful 325 sqm geometric stained glass window, at Parroquia del Señor de la Resurreccion church in Mexico City. Created by op-artist Victor Vasarely in 1974. #StainedGlassSunday

NEWS: From John Lewis to Lewis Hamilton? C20 has welcomed bold new plans that would see the vacant Norco House department store in Aberdeen converted into a multi-level indoor go-karting circuit. The brutalist ziggurat was featured in C20’s 2023-24 Risk List ➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/from-jo...

NEWS: C20 and @c20cymru.bsky.social are celebrating the 5th Leisure Centre to be listed as a result of our ongoing campaign, and the first example in Wales. Wrexham Waterworld (1967-70) is known for its hyperbolic paraboloid roof, one of the largest ever built. ➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/wrexham...

Mexican functionalism, blue sky, and cacti. Bliss. Museo Casa Estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo | Juan O’Gorman, 1931-32

A remarkable 1936 sculptural frieze by Isamu Noguchi, his first public commission, on the fate of the worker amid rapid industrialisation and the global rise of fascism. It covers a 72ft wall in a rather forgotten upstairs space at the Abelardo Rodríguez Market in Mexico City.

The stunning Morisco (or Moorish) Kiosk. Created as Mexico’s pavilion for the 1884 World’s Fair in New Orleans, it moved to Chicago and on to the 1902 St Louis Exposition, before finding a permanent home at Santa Maria la Ribera in Mexico City. It was declared a National Artistic Monument in 1972.

NEWS: C20 has renewed its 35 year-long campaign to designate the Hayward Gallery, Queen Elizabeth Hall, and Purcell Rooms at the Southbank Centre, as a Certificate of Immunity from listing the brutalist arts complex expires. ➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/if-not-...

‘This is the building which often prompts the response “I can’t believe it’s not listed”. Our message for DCMS and the heritage minister, Chris Bryant MP, is: do the right thing.’ C20 in @theguardian.com on the Southbank Centre campaign. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Angel Square Islington, before and after. The previous building wasn’t perfect, but with upgrading and an activated street frontage, it had more to give. What a waste.

NEWS: C20 Society has applied to list the first UK building by David Chipperfield Architects. Built 1987-89, their former studio and offices in Camden combines influences from Le Corbusian-style modernism and traditional Japanese architecture. ➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/listing...

‘Such murals are wonderfully creative, visually rich chapters of our national story that have for too long been overlooked,’ C20 in World of Interiors on the restoration of Gülsün Erbil’s Equality-Harmony mural at the Broadwater Farm Estate. www.worldofinteriors.com/story/equali...

Never forget the horror-show of when they filled it with sand and shrubs to become a porcupine enclosure.

🐧 Happy World Penguin Awareness day! Here’s the Grade I listed Penguin Pool at London Zoo (Berthold Lubetkin and Tecton with Ove Arup, 1934), as painted by artist Alfred Thompson. Sadly, the modernist icon hasn’t had any avian residents since the early 2000s.

Working breakfast ☕️

New year, new job? C20 is looking for an Events Manager to join our small team, supporting and developing our burgeoning programme of tours, walks, and lectures - both in the UK and Internationally. The deadline for applications is midnight on Sunday 26 January. ➡️ c20society.org.uk/work-with-us

Happy 130th Birthday to the @nationaltrust.bsky.social, founded #OnThisDay in 1895. Their iconic and enduring sprig of oak-leaves emblem was designed by Arts & Crafts wood carver Joseph Armitage in 1935, it was subtly modernised by David Gentlemen in 1982, and refreshed by Wolff Olins in 2009.

🚴‍♂️ Fantastic to see the former Richard Dunn Sports Centre site back in use for the National Cyclo-Cross Trophy at the weekend, to kick-off Bradford 2025. C20 & Ian Chalk Architects have proposed the Grade II building as a national home for skateboarding and wheelsports - here was the perfect taster!

NEWS: C20 has called for the listing of two historic 213m longwave radio masts at the Droitwich Transmitting Station in Worcestershire. The 1930s masts played a pivotal role in the D-Day landings, and have broadcast the Shipping Forecast and Test Match Special. ➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/c20-cal...

Rock archaeology news: the brutalist monolith from the iconic, 2001: A Space Odyssey-esque ‘Who’s Next’ album cover has finally been rediscovered! The concrete drainage shaft is buried on a spoil heap near Chesterfield, with only the top now visible in a farmers field. Time to excavate, surely?

Monstrosities Mon Amour: episode 2 of my podcast is out. Join @helenbarrett.bsky.social in her love for the optimistic Americana of Swindon, with a side helping of Status Quo johngrindrod.substack.com/p/monstrosit...

Wonderful new glasshouse at Cliffe Castle in Keighley. Originally built 1875, demolished in the 1950s, and recreated in 2017 as part of a £4.5 million renovation project. Local museums for the win! @bradfordmuseums.bsky.social

Oli Marshall, campaigns director at @c20society.bsky.social explains why the old Waterloo Eurostar terminal must be listed

💥That was the year that was! Presenting C20's heritage highlights of the buildings and sites we helped to get listed in 2024. From outsider art to a cabman shelter, a Finnish Olympic sauna to a Scottish skatepark, not forgetting the Egyptian-style house - now the youngest listed building in Britain.

Ironic tip-of-the-hat to M&S for the impressive transformation of their historic Art Deco store in Brixton. Restoring heritage features, while radically modernising retail spaces. Rather than demolition, this is EXACTLY what they should be doing to Orchard House on Oxford St.

📮For #PostboxSaturday here's a C20 favourite: the streamlined Type N, designed by Sir Kenneth Grange in 1996-99 as a 21st century version of the humble rural postbox. Nicknamed 'Bantam' for its resemblence to the fuel tank on a GPO Bantam motorcycle, it was the last model to be made in cast-iron.

Terrific to see some of the recent restoration work by @avantiarch.bsky.social on Lubetkin’s Grade I listed Finsbury Health Centre - one of the most important modern buildings in Britain. Just look at those glass bricks, ooof!

For our Miners’ Modernism: Pithead Baths project, C20 was thrilled to collaborate with legendary banner maker Ed Hall (perhaps best known for his work with Jeremy Deller), who created this glorious trade union style banner. Look out Durham Gala 2025!

⛏️ Miners' Modernism: Pithead Baths They brought European architectural modernism to working communities across the country, and delivered widespread health and welfare benefits 20 years before the founding of the NHS, yet Britain’s pioneering Pithead Baths have been almost completely forgotten...🧵

BREAKING NEWS //Angela Rayner has granted permission to demolish M&S Oxford St, overturning a decision by the previous Secretary of State. The chance to set a vision for a more sustainable and creative Britain that reuses its built-heritage, has been squandered. Green growth? Not on this evidence.

Oyster bar door handle, neon sign.

“Yes, it’s a genocide. And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent.” - Amos Goldberg, Israeli Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies (Location: Parliament Square, London. Read full statement below)

‘What connects Huddersfield’s 1990s football stadium and Notre Dame? Beauty.’ ‘From a rail terminal to a high-tech house, modern buildings now eligible for listing are a delight anyone can enjoy – even traditionalists.’ Rowan Moore in today’s Observer on C20’s #ComingOfAge campaign.

A remarkable stat: Heidi Alexander’s appointment as Transport Secretary means the cabinet is now 100% state-educated for the first time in history.