The Centenary Building was widely recognised, receiving the RIBA Award in 1996, the RIBA Architecture in Education Category ...

Terry’s of York originated in 1767 in the sugar confectionery business of Bayldon and Berry which by 1824 occupied premises in the fashionable centre of York close to the Mansion House in St Helen’s ...

An early home of the Labour movement has just been Grade II listed, following an application by C20 Society and Shrewsbury ...

The Scottish architect James Robb Scott, (1882 – 1965) designed a string of railways stations – from Bishopstone to Bromley North, Horsham to Hastings, Ramsgate to Richmond – but his Art Deco ...

You can look for churches using the search boxes or on the pins on the map. Each entry gives the architect and location, and the icons on the left show listing status. Where available, we have ...

It is heartening to see the growing enthusiasm and support for twentieth century buildings – even some of those still regarded as more difficult to love – and we hope this is reflected in the ...

This rectangular ceramic mural of 8 metres long by 1.4 metres is a tribute to the golden age for occupational medicine in Wales. The contribution of the Pneumoconiosis Research Unit in making the ...

‘Let the women of Britain come forward’ said Churchill. Over seven million women volunteered for the armed services and supporting roles in ammunitions factories, first aid and the Land Army, in the ...

When I became MP in 1989, Vauxhall Cross was an anonymous windswept wasteland between the railway and the river. Magically, from between the cranes and the concrete mixers, this amazing, stylish ...

The Risk List is the Societies’ annual compilation of the top 10 most threatened twentieth and twenty-first century buildings across the UK. Our 2023-24 list includes a Bengali women’s centre in ...

Opening as recently as 2007, this £13 million final phase of the British Library was designed by Long & Kentish with Colin St John Wilson to provide a world class facility for all aspects of book ...

It was perhaps because of one of its illustrations that Colin Buchanan’s 1963 government report was so widely reported – everywhere from the Daily Worker to The Tablet – and reprinted as a mass-market ...