As the architecture world gears up for the announcement of the RIBA Stirling Prize, the race is on to save a space-age school ...

A short metro ride from the centre of Stockholm, set within a hundred hectares of heavily-planted pine forest and grassy slopes lies the beautifully peaceful Woodland Cemetery. Built on the site of a ...

The last coal-fired power station in the country, Ratcliffe-on-Soar, shuts down on the 30th of September 2024, and most ...

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 ...

Patrick Hodgkinson began to develop the concept for the design of The Brunswick Centre with his study of the Loughborough Road Estate in Lambeth by the LCC, where Sir Leslie Martin was the chief ...

Finsbury Health Centre was arguably modern architecture’s most important single achievement in England in the first half of the 20th century. This realisation of a radical humanitarian brief for a ...

The University of Stirling was established as part of the major expansion of Higher Education in post-war Britain. The only wholly new Scottish university of the 1960s, its foundation followed the ...

The Palast der Republik (Palace of the Republic) in East Berlin’s centre is being demolished while I am writing this text. The Palast was one of East Germany’s most significant architectural projects.

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 ...

The demolition of Milton Court in 2008 tore a chapter from the history of Chamberlin, Powell and Bon’s landmark post-war redevelopment of the City of London. Designed by the practice in 1959, it was ...

In 1913, a competition was held to design a new building to house the then Belfast Museum and Art Gallery’s expanding collections. James Cumming Wynnes of Edinburgh won the competition judged by Sir J ...

Designed by J.R.C. Bethell from the County Architect’s Office and built between 1986 and 87, South Glamorgan County Hall was an early keystone project in the regeneration of Cardiff’s waterfront.