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C20 Society
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The national charity campaigning to protect Britain’s modern architectural and design heritage. Reuse Them or Lose Them! #C20Society
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    C20 Society
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    Sep 30, 2024
    ⛔️ Today Ratcliffe-on-Soar, the last coal-fired power station in Britain, shuts down: The symbolic end of the carbon age after more than 200 years. Its majestic 375ft cooling towers are the Avebury or Stonehenge of the 20th century, yet only 45 towers remain across the country,
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    Jul 20, 2023
    ⚠️BREAKING NEWS // The Secretary of State has just rejected plans for the demolition of the M&S Oxford Street store. A huge victory for heritage and environmental campaigners, and a landmark decision for the future of UK construction and the built environment. More to follow...
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    Jan 13, 2023
    BREAKING NEWS // Nottingham's Art Deco former Police and Fire Station (R.M. Finch, 1938-40) has just been Grade II listed, saving the building from planned demolition.
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    Dec 5, 2024
    BREAKING NEWS // Angela Rayner has granted permission for M&S to demolish their Oxford Street flagship store, 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
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    Sep 28, 2023
    ⚠️BREAKING NEWS // Birmingham City Council's planning committee have just approved plans for the demolition of Smallbrook Ringway Centre. Another devastating assault on the city's post-war heritage and a failure of imagination to not renew and repurpose this landmark building.
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    Feb 26, 2022
    NEWS // A remarkably well preserved Art Deco house in South London has been saved from demolition - following an urgent intervention by C20 Society and the rare use of a Building Preservation Notice (BPN)… More: c20society.org.uk/news/rare-sout… #C20Campaigns
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    Aug 6, 2024
    🚨UPDATE: We're delighted that 71 Whitney Drive in Stevenage has just been designated Grade II following C20's listing application, saving the house from a consented demolition. Designed in 1966 by Derrick Shorten as his family home, Shorten was also project architect on the
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    C20 Society
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    May 8, 2024
    🚨 C20 is concerned to learn that planning permission has been granted to demolish 17 Whitney Drive in Stevenage, Hertfordshire. Designed in 1966 by Derrick Shorten as his own family home, Shorten was also project architect on Coventry Railway Station (1962), now Grade II listed.
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    Dec 19, 2023
    ⚠️BREAKING NEWS // Following a legal challenge by campaigners, Birmingham City Council have agreed to reconsider the Planning Committee decision for demolition of the Ringway Centre. A welcome step from the council and a huge milestone in the battle to save this Brum landmark!
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    Mar 28, 2023
    BREAKING NEWS // C20 is thrilled to announce the Channel 4 HQ in Westminster by Richard Rogers (1992-94) has just been Grade II listed - one of the youngest listed buildings in the county. The high-tech landmark was included in our recent 2023 Risk List: buff.ly/3LGgKuR
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    Jul 10, 2024
    NEWS // C20 has backed the campaign to save the unlisted Art Deco Picturehouse in Bromley from imminent closure. Designed in 1936 by George Coles, it has remained in continuous use as a cinema, and underwent a £4.5 milllion refurbishment in 2019. ✍️🏻Sign the petition:
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    C20 Society
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    Aug 11, 2022
    🚨BREAKING NEWS: The former John Lewis / Cole Bros. in Sheffield has just been Grade II listed & saved from demolition! A key case in our Department Stores Campaign, this the culmination of a 20 year battle, with C20 first applying to list the building in 2002. More to follow...
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    C20 Society
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    Nov 13, 2023
    C20 is urgently querying the status of the tiled maze mural at Warren Street Underground Station with @TfL, following images its removal over the weekend. Designed by Crosby/Fletcher/Forbes (1969-71), this is one of 16 tiled motifs on the Victoria Line - one at each station.
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    A maze tile panel at Warren Street with most of the tiles having been removed.
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    Nov 12, 2023
    Well this not good… are they just replacing it with grey? I hope not, but… money.
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    C20 Society
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    Jul 8, 2024
    Demolition beckons for the fine, modernist French Railways House on Piccadilly (1960-62). Designed by Shaw & Lloyd with signage by Ernő Goldfinger and interiors by Charlotte Perriand, this could so easily have been upgraded for modern office use. Wasteful and wholly unnecessary.
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    Jul 8, 2024
    French Railway House in its funeral shroud. Utterly disgraceful to demolish such a distinguished building.
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    Jul 8, 2021
    NEWS // Nearly five years after we first launched a campaign to save it, we are thrilled to reveal that Durham’s Brutalist Dunelm House has been listed Grade II! Congrats to @SaveDunelmHouse - fantastic news to share. Background from 2017: c20society.org.uk/news/c20-socie… #C20Campaigns