Oli Marshall

Happy Summer Solstice 🌞 While the druids and Instagrammers head for Stonehenge, you’ll find us in…Milton Keynes! The astrologically inclined post-war new town was reputedly designed “under a fog of marijuana smoke and Pink Floyd records”. Its central artery is Midsummer…

NEWS: C20 has engaged in constructive pre-app discussions with the developers of 33 Cavendish Square, north of Oxford Street in London. The former home of London College of Fashion, it was built to designs by TP Bennett and Son between 1959 and 1963. The Society does not object…

From Subtopia to Surfs’s Up 🏄🏼‍♂️ This month saw the 70th anniversary of Ian Nairn’s seminal polemic Outrage - first published in the June 1955 issue of @ArchReview, it forever changed the nature of architectural discourse in Britain. Outrage was reissued earlier this year by…

'Cosmic Wigwam': The Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King in Liverpool has been upgraded to Grade I listed status, following support from C20 Society. Designed by architect Sir Frederick Gibberd and built between 1962-67, the modernist cathedral is a great vessel of…

This @C20Society book, out in September, is going to be absolutely stonking.

Eid Mubarak 🌙 Glasgow Central Mosque has been listed at Category A by @HistEnvScot following a public consultation and support from C20. Designed by architects W.M. Copeland & Associates in 1977, later completed by Coleman Ballantine Partnership, the building is in a…

Understand that Crystal Palace have been in discussions with local stakeholders about ending their FA Cup victory parade next Monday at Crystal Palace park. Would be especially poignant to do it at the club’s former home… #cpfc 🦖

📖The latest issue of our award winning C20 Magazine is out now! It includes a tale of two estates and two special covers (ft. @PhinHarper @OSaumarezSmith), Seifert's Space (House) Odyssey, Beside the Seaside with @SeasideFerry, Desert Island Objects with Kate Macintosh and…

Congratulations @CPFC! 🏆 Did you know, @CrystalPalacePK 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 an appeal by C20 Society, we're delighted to announce that the Future Systems classroom pod (2004) in Richmond has been saved from demolition by the @KaplickyCentre. It is now set to be restored and become the first posthumous Jan Kaplický…

NEWS: We're very pleased to announce that Brighton & Hove Reform Synagogue, the fifth case on the #C20RiskList 2025, has been saved with a Grade II listing designation. Designed by architect Derek Sharp and built 1966-67, the modernist synagogue was threatened with demolition,…

"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 Guardian, and our fight to protect modern heritage. theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

🚨 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.…

📍Hello Brighton & Hove List It or Lose It. Protect Britain's modern heritage: Read the #C20RiskList from 09.04.25 (Graphic design @studiohunter_, illustration @markalexlong, in partnership with @buildhollywood)

📍Ey up Sheffield Reuse It or Lose It. Protect Britain's modern heritage: Read the #C20RiskList from 09.04.25 (Graphic design @studiohunter_, illustration @markalexlong, in partnership with @buildhollywood)

👀 London Calling 📍Shoreditch / Southwark / Dalston Reuse Them or Lose Them Protect Britain's modern heritage: Read the #C20RiskList from 09.04.25 (Graphic design @studiohunter_, illustration @markalexlong, in partnership with @buildhollywood)

The Tinsley ‘salt and pepper pot’ cooling towers in Sheffield were the last pre-war examples in Britain, yet were demolished in 2008 despite local opposition. C20 is campaigning to preserve one set of cooling towers before they all disappear: c20society.org.uk/cooling-towers