Inspiring day with Hugh Pearman interviewing potential new C20 Society trustees, had perfect lunchtime break— walked to see Ibrahim Mahama
wrapping of Barbican Centre billowing in a warm breeze

NEWS // Crawick Multiverse in Dumfries and Galloway, has become the UK's first 21st Century designated landscape, having been completed just 7 years ago, in 2017.
Designed by Charles Jencks, it was his final land art project and largest work in the UK.

➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/jencks-cr…

Come and work with me as part of C20 Society’s casework team! ❤️

🎙️“You’ve got a brutalist 1970s building there that you could turn into the grooviest workspace on Earth”

Merlin Fulcher making the case for a Bastion House retrofit in another great episode of the The Brief, by Open City

▶️ shows.acast.com/opencity/episo…

Haworth Tompkins has been chosen to revamp the iconic De La Warr pavilion:

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📢Open City is looking for an enthusiastic Podcast Producer to work on the award-winning show The Brief, as well as audio tours and associated Open City Podcast audio content🎙️🎧Application deadline 24 April, more details here:
open-city.org.uk/blog/open-city…

#C20BuildingOfTheMonth for April 2024 // Before becoming synonymous with geodesic domes, Buckminster Fuller's experimental prefabricated Dymaxion House in Wichita, Kansas (1944-46) sought ‘maximum gain of advantage from minimal energy input’.

➡️c20society.org.uk/building-of-th…

A year on and apparently there is still no confirmed date for the return of František (Franta) Belsky's 1957 'Torsion' aka 'The Shell Centre Fountain' to what is now 'Southbank Place'???

📢Contentious Barbican demolition plans tipped for City approval architectsjournal.co.uk/news/contentio…

☕️Tea & bacon sarnies alert: One of the last cabmen's shelters to be built in London (1915) has been listed!

The St John's Wood example follows the classic ornamental design by Max Clarke, painted a pleasing 'Buckingham' green. All 13 survivors are still overseen by Cabmens Shelter Fund

Long overdue update on the listing application - sadly Cadw have decided that this doesn't meet the requisite criteria so replacement will now go ahead.

☕️ One of London’s classic caffs, as featured in the film Quadrophenia. Formerly Alfredo's Snack Bar on Essex Road, Islington - Grade II listed cafe frontage of chromed metal with Vitrolite panel signage (1949)

historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-li…

Launched in 1980, Margaret Calvert’s graphic design for the Tyne and Wear Metro is still in use across the network today, so it’s great to see her pay a visit!

Whether via road, rail, air or sea, her work over six decades has helped shape the visual identity of modern Britain.

🎞️For C20 #ArchiveFriday this week, we take a look at the John Winter House in Highgate, pictured shortly after completion in 1969.
The Cor-Ten steel building is one of the best-known and most influential modern houses in England, and is now Grade II* listed.

Image © C20 Society

NEWS // The remarkable Ron’s Place in Birkenhead has been Grade II listed following support from C20.

Created by Ron Gittins between 1986-2019, it features creatures from Greek mythology and murals of Ancient Rome, and is the first example of Outsider Art to be nationally listed

Purcell guidance on how to restore listed buildings without diminishing their historical status wins support of Twentieth Century Society, SPAB & Institute of Historic Building Conservation
SPAB C20 Society IHBC
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The Function of Colour in Schools & Hospitals, 1930.
presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/the…
All plates at the link.