Dear members, followers, and friends, As the year draws to a close I’m writing to thank you for your support and send you best wishes for the holiday season and for 2025. Reflecting back, 2024 has ...

Earning a footnote in British pop history as being the inspiration behind the name of the band Oasis, this building is of national architectural significance. It is a rare and important survivor of a ...

Designed in 1965 by the architectural practice of Sir Basil Spence, Bonnington and Collins (and attributed to John S. Bonnington), the low informal group is built of brindled brick and red tile.

This high-density low-rise estate is a strong example of the important legacy of progressive public housing created by Lambeth Architect’s Department under Ted Hollamby, demonstrating the use of a ...

Until the beginning of the 1990’s, Spira was a potter at Lower Froyle in Hampshire. Whilst working at the Swallow tile Co, Spira perfected the art of interlocking geometric tiles with various complex ...

Every conservation society needs a martyr – a demolition so outrageous and shocking that the press and public realise the need for the society. With the Georgian Group, it was the Adelphi; with the ...

In February 1969 a momentous debate within the University of London about the redevelopment of a Georgian square in their Bloomsbury home marked the end of the free hand of authorities to plan cities ...

Henry Collins and his wife Joyce Pallot produced a series of historical murals using mainly concrete and mosaic. They never worked on the site itself, but used a regular contractor who cast the ...

The Scottish National War Memorial is one of the outstanding pieces of public art of its time. A shrine to the nation’s collective loss, the Memorial commemorates all the individual men and women of ...

Ray Howard-Jones won a national competition held by the Western Mail in 1958 to embellish their new office building in Cardiff. Chiefly known as an impressionist neo-romantic landscape painter, she ...

The University of Hull’s Gulbenkian Centre opened in 1969. It was the first completely new building for the teaching of drama at a British university, reflecting not only the growth of this subject ...