Oli Marshall
@olimarshall.bsky.social
London by way of Yorkshire | Campaigns Director at @C20Society.bsky.social
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💥12 months ago Britain's last coal-fired power station, Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire, shut down after 50 years powering the national grid. We can now confirm that C20's listing application for Ratcliffe's 8 cooling towers has been rejected by DCMS, while their demolition has been approved.
October 8, 2025 at 11:42 AM
💥12 months ago Britain's last coal-fired power station, Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire, shut down after 50 years powering the national grid. We can now confirm that C20's listing application for Ratcliffe's 8 cooling towers has been rejected by DCMS, while their demolition has been approved.
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September 22, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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NEWS: C20 is backing a campaign to save a pioneering 1980s Black community centre in London from redevelopment, and has supported a listing application. Bridge Park is a key example of the community architecture movement and adaptive reuse of industrial heritage.
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July 31, 2025 at 11:05 AM
NEWS: C20 is backing a campaign to save a pioneering 1980s Black community centre in London from redevelopment, and has supported a listing application. Bridge Park is a key example of the community architecture movement and adaptive reuse of industrial heritage.
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Good news from the #C20RiskList: The former National Centre for Popular Music in Sheffield has been added to the South Yorkshire Local Heritage List, as the campaign to safeguard the distinctive 'kettles' building from potential redevelopment gathers momentum.
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July 17, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Good news from the #C20RiskList: The former National Centre for Popular Music in Sheffield has been added to the South Yorkshire Local Heritage List, as the campaign to safeguard the distinctive 'kettles' building from potential redevelopment gathers momentum.
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Cosmic Wigwam: Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral has been upgraded to Grade I listed status, following support from C20 Society. Designed by Sir Frederick Gibberd and built 1962-67, the modernist cathedral is a great vessel of post-war glass, sculpture and design.
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June 17, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Cosmic Wigwam: Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral has been upgraded to Grade I listed status, following support from C20 Society. Designed by Sir Frederick Gibberd and built 1962-67, the modernist cathedral is a great vessel of post-war glass, sculpture and design.
➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/cosmic-...
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Eid Mubarak 🌙
Glasgow Central Mosque has been listed at Category A following a public consultation and support from C20. Designed by architects W.M. Copeland & Assoc. (1977-84), the Postmodern building is the first and largest purpose-built mosque in Scotland.
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Glasgow Central Mosque has been listed at Category A following a public consultation and support from C20. Designed by architects W.M. Copeland & Assoc. (1977-84), the Postmodern building is the first and largest purpose-built mosque in Scotland.
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June 10, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Eid Mubarak 🌙
Glasgow Central Mosque has been listed at Category A following a public consultation and support from C20. Designed by architects W.M. Copeland & Assoc. (1977-84), the Postmodern building is the first and largest purpose-built mosque in Scotland.
➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/first-p...
Glasgow Central Mosque has been listed at Category A following a public consultation and support from C20. Designed by architects W.M. Copeland & Assoc. (1977-84), the Postmodern building is the first and largest purpose-built mosque in Scotland.
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Congratulations #CPFC! 🏆
Did you know, Crystal Palace Park 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)
Did you know, Crystal Palace Park 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)
May 19, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Congratulations #CPFC! 🏆
Did you know, Crystal Palace Park 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)
Did you know, Crystal Palace Park 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)
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NEWS | It's Coming Home: Following a C20 appeal, a Future Systems classroom pod in Richmond has been saved from demolition by the Kaplický Foundation.
It is now set to be restored and become the first posthumous Jan Kaplický building in his native Czech Republic.
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It is now set to be restored and become the first posthumous Jan Kaplický building in his native Czech Republic.
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May 7, 2025 at 9:28 AM
NEWS | It's Coming Home: Following a C20 appeal, a Future Systems classroom pod in Richmond has been saved from demolition by the Kaplický Foundation.
It is now set to be restored and become the first posthumous Jan Kaplický building in his native Czech Republic.
➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/its-com...
It is now set to be restored and become the first posthumous Jan Kaplický building in his native Czech Republic.
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🗞️ Reuse Them or Lose Them: Read all about it!
Haven’t thumbed through the #C20RiskList yet? You can download a digital copy from our website, or order a printed copy from the C20 Shop for just £2.
Members will receive one with the next issue of our magazine.
shop.c20society.org.uk/products/the...
Haven’t thumbed through the #C20RiskList yet? You can download a digital copy from our website, or order a printed copy from the C20 Shop for just £2.
Members will receive one with the next issue of our magazine.
shop.c20society.org.uk/products/the...
April 25, 2025 at 9:49 AM
🗞️ Reuse Them or Lose Them: Read all about it!
Haven’t thumbed through the #C20RiskList yet? You can download a digital copy from our website, or order a printed copy from the C20 Shop for just £2.
Members will receive one with the next issue of our magazine.
shop.c20society.org.uk/products/the...
Haven’t thumbed through the #C20RiskList yet? You can download a digital copy from our website, or order a printed copy from the C20 Shop for just £2.
Members will receive one with the next issue of our magazine.
shop.c20society.org.uk/products/the...
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"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 @theguardian.com, and our fight to protect modern heritage.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Read about C20's Risk List in the @theguardian.com, and our fight to protect modern heritage.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
‘It’s unjust’: charity fights to save UK’s at-risk modern buildings
Millennium-era buildings – including Sheffield’s ‘kettle building’ – among a number of landmarks facing demolition
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April 10, 2025 at 6:45 AM
"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 @theguardian.com, and our fight to protect modern heritage.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Read about C20's Risk List in the @theguardian.com, and our fight to protect modern heritage.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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🚨 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.
c20society.org.uk/buildings-at...
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.
c20society.org.uk/buildings-at...
April 9, 2025 at 9:34 AM
🚨 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.
c20society.org.uk/buildings-at...
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.
c20society.org.uk/buildings-at...
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👀 London Calling
📍Shoreditch / Southwark / Dalston
Reuse Them or Lose Them
Protect Britain's modern heritage:
Read the #C20RiskList from 09.04.25
(Graphic design Studio Hunter, illustration Mark Long, in partnership with Build Hollywood)
📍Shoreditch / Southwark / Dalston
Reuse Them or Lose Them
Protect Britain's modern heritage:
Read the #C20RiskList from 09.04.25
(Graphic design Studio Hunter, illustration Mark Long, in partnership with Build Hollywood)
April 4, 2025 at 9:32 AM
👀 London Calling
📍Shoreditch / Southwark / Dalston
Reuse Them or Lose Them
Protect Britain's modern heritage:
Read the #C20RiskList from 09.04.25
(Graphic design Studio Hunter, illustration Mark Long, in partnership with Build Hollywood)
📍Shoreditch / Southwark / Dalston
Reuse Them or Lose Them
Protect Britain's modern heritage:
Read the #C20RiskList from 09.04.25
(Graphic design Studio Hunter, illustration Mark Long, in partnership with Build Hollywood)
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👉🏼 C20 JOB ALERT: Want to help shape the future of heritage?We're recruiting a new Head of Casework to join our high profile team. This is a crucial role, and one requiring a high degree of skill, knowledge and integrity.
More info: c20society.org.uk/work-with-us
Application deadline: Mon 7 April.
More info: c20society.org.uk/work-with-us
Application deadline: Mon 7 April.
March 28, 2025 at 10:32 AM
👉🏼 C20 JOB ALERT: Want to help shape the future of heritage?We're recruiting a new Head of Casework to join our high profile team. This is a crucial role, and one requiring a high degree of skill, knowledge and integrity.
More info: c20society.org.uk/work-with-us
Application deadline: Mon 7 April.
More info: c20society.org.uk/work-with-us
Application deadline: Mon 7 April.
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NEWS: The former Debenhams building in Bristol has been transformed into 'Shredenhams' - a new pop-up skatepark in the empty retail spaces.
In 2024 consent was given for demolition, despite strong objections from C20 and Historic England. Could it still be saved? 🛹
c20society.org.uk/news/shreden...
In 2024 consent was given for demolition, despite strong objections from C20 and Historic England. Could it still be saved? 🛹
c20society.org.uk/news/shreden...
March 26, 2025 at 10:32 AM
NEWS: The former Debenhams building in Bristol has been transformed into 'Shredenhams' - a new pop-up skatepark in the empty retail spaces.
In 2024 consent was given for demolition, despite strong objections from C20 and Historic England. Could it still be saved? 🛹
c20society.org.uk/news/shreden...
In 2024 consent was given for demolition, despite strong objections from C20 and Historic England. Could it still be saved? 🛹
c20society.org.uk/news/shreden...
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📖 We have not one but TWO amazing new C20
@batsfordbooks.bsky.social coming this spring / summer.
You can now pre-order 20th Century Seaside Architecture by
@seasideferry.bsky.social, and 100 20th Century Sports & Leisure Buildings directly from the C20 Shop!
🛒 c20society.org.uk/shop
@batsfordbooks.bsky.social coming this spring / summer.
You can now pre-order 20th Century Seaside Architecture by
@seasideferry.bsky.social, and 100 20th Century Sports & Leisure Buildings directly from the C20 Shop!
🛒 c20society.org.uk/shop
March 24, 2025 at 11:15 AM
📖 We have not one but TWO amazing new C20
@batsfordbooks.bsky.social coming this spring / summer.
You can now pre-order 20th Century Seaside Architecture by
@seasideferry.bsky.social, and 100 20th Century Sports & Leisure Buildings directly from the C20 Shop!
🛒 c20society.org.uk/shop
@batsfordbooks.bsky.social coming this spring / summer.
You can now pre-order 20th Century Seaside Architecture by
@seasideferry.bsky.social, and 100 20th Century Sports & Leisure Buildings directly from the C20 Shop!
🛒 c20society.org.uk/shop
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NEWS: C20 has made a listing application for the Welsh Wildlife Centre in Pembrokeshire, following new plans that would harm the early eco-modernist building.
Designed by Niall Phillips in 1993-94, the Centre was featured in our recent #ComingOfAge campaign.
➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/coming-...
Designed by Niall Phillips in 1993-94, the Centre was featured in our recent #ComingOfAge campaign.
➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/coming-...
March 20, 2025 at 10:46 AM
NEWS: C20 has made a listing application for the Welsh Wildlife Centre in Pembrokeshire, following new plans that would harm the early eco-modernist building.
Designed by Niall Phillips in 1993-94, the Centre was featured in our recent #ComingOfAge campaign.
➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/coming-...
Designed by Niall Phillips in 1993-94, the Centre was featured in our recent #ComingOfAge campaign.
➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/coming-...
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⚠️We join with our fellow Amenity Societies in expressing deep concern that the government is considering removing The Gardens Trust as a statutory consultee within the English planning system. Their expert advice is vital in protecting our historic parks and gardens.
Read more: bit.ly/3R8MCtl
Read more: bit.ly/3R8MCtl
March 19, 2025 at 3:13 PM
⚠️We join with our fellow Amenity Societies in expressing deep concern that the government is considering removing The Gardens Trust as a statutory consultee within the English planning system. Their expert advice is vital in protecting our historic parks and gardens.
Read more: bit.ly/3R8MCtl
Read more: bit.ly/3R8MCtl
‘Homenaje a México’ - an extraordinarily beautiful 325 sqm geometric stained glass window, at Parroquia del Señor de la Resurreccion church in Mexico City. Created by op-artist Victor Vasarely in 1974. #StainedGlassSunday
March 16, 2025 at 8:28 AM
‘Homenaje a México’ - an extraordinarily beautiful 325 sqm geometric stained glass window, at Parroquia del Señor de la Resurreccion church in Mexico City. Created by op-artist Victor Vasarely in 1974. #StainedGlassSunday
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NEWS: From John Lewis to Lewis Hamilton?
C20 has welcomed bold new plans that would see the vacant Norco House department store in Aberdeen converted into a multi-level indoor go-karting circuit. The brutalist ziggurat was featured in C20’s 2023-24 Risk List
➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/from-jo...
C20 has welcomed bold new plans that would see the vacant Norco House department store in Aberdeen converted into a multi-level indoor go-karting circuit. The brutalist ziggurat was featured in C20’s 2023-24 Risk List
➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/from-jo...
February 26, 2025 at 10:46 AM
NEWS: From John Lewis to Lewis Hamilton?
C20 has welcomed bold new plans that would see the vacant Norco House department store in Aberdeen converted into a multi-level indoor go-karting circuit. The brutalist ziggurat was featured in C20’s 2023-24 Risk List
➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/from-jo...
C20 has welcomed bold new plans that would see the vacant Norco House department store in Aberdeen converted into a multi-level indoor go-karting circuit. The brutalist ziggurat was featured in C20’s 2023-24 Risk List
➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/from-jo...
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NEWS: C20 and @c20cymru.bsky.social are celebrating the 5th Leisure Centre to be listed as a result of our ongoing campaign, and the first example in Wales.
Wrexham Waterworld (1967-70) is known for its hyperbolic paraboloid roof, one of the largest ever built.
➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/wrexham...
Wrexham Waterworld (1967-70) is known for its hyperbolic paraboloid roof, one of the largest ever built.
➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/wrexham...
February 20, 2025 at 10:33 AM
NEWS: C20 and @c20cymru.bsky.social are celebrating the 5th Leisure Centre to be listed as a result of our ongoing campaign, and the first example in Wales.
Wrexham Waterworld (1967-70) is known for its hyperbolic paraboloid roof, one of the largest ever built.
➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/wrexham...
Wrexham Waterworld (1967-70) is known for its hyperbolic paraboloid roof, one of the largest ever built.
➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/wrexham...
Mexican functionalism, blue sky, and cacti. Bliss.
Museo Casa Estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo | Juan O’Gorman, 1931-32
Museo Casa Estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo | Juan O’Gorman, 1931-32
February 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Mexican functionalism, blue sky, and cacti. Bliss.
Museo Casa Estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo | Juan O’Gorman, 1931-32
Museo Casa Estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo | Juan O’Gorman, 1931-32
A remarkable 1936 sculptural frieze by Isamu Noguchi, his first public commission, on the fate of the worker amid rapid industrialisation and the global rise of fascism.
It covers a 72ft wall in a rather forgotten upstairs space at the Abelardo Rodríguez Market in Mexico City.
It covers a 72ft wall in a rather forgotten upstairs space at the Abelardo Rodríguez Market in Mexico City.
February 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
A remarkable 1936 sculptural frieze by Isamu Noguchi, his first public commission, on the fate of the worker amid rapid industrialisation and the global rise of fascism.
It covers a 72ft wall in a rather forgotten upstairs space at the Abelardo Rodríguez Market in Mexico City.
It covers a 72ft wall in a rather forgotten upstairs space at the Abelardo Rodríguez Market in Mexico City.
The stunning Morisco (or Moorish) Kiosk.
Created as Mexico’s pavilion for the 1884 World’s Fair in New Orleans, it moved to Chicago and on to the 1902 St Louis Exposition, before finding a permanent home at Santa Maria la Ribera in Mexico City. It was declared a National Artistic Monument in 1972.
Created as Mexico’s pavilion for the 1884 World’s Fair in New Orleans, it moved to Chicago and on to the 1902 St Louis Exposition, before finding a permanent home at Santa Maria la Ribera in Mexico City. It was declared a National Artistic Monument in 1972.
February 11, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The stunning Morisco (or Moorish) Kiosk.
Created as Mexico’s pavilion for the 1884 World’s Fair in New Orleans, it moved to Chicago and on to the 1902 St Louis Exposition, before finding a permanent home at Santa Maria la Ribera in Mexico City. It was declared a National Artistic Monument in 1972.
Created as Mexico’s pavilion for the 1884 World’s Fair in New Orleans, it moved to Chicago and on to the 1902 St Louis Exposition, before finding a permanent home at Santa Maria la Ribera in Mexico City. It was declared a National Artistic Monument in 1972.
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NEWS: C20 has renewed its 35 year-long campaign to designate the Hayward Gallery, Queen Elizabeth Hall, and Purcell Rooms at the Southbank Centre, as a Certificate of Immunity from listing the brutalist arts complex expires.
➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/if-not-...
➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/if-not-...
February 6, 2025 at 10:34 AM
NEWS: C20 has renewed its 35 year-long campaign to designate the Hayward Gallery, Queen Elizabeth Hall, and Purcell Rooms at the Southbank Centre, as a Certificate of Immunity from listing the brutalist arts complex expires.
➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/if-not-...
➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/if-not-...
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‘This is the building which often prompts the response “I can’t believe it’s not listed”. Our message for DCMS and the heritage minister, Chris Bryant MP, is: do the right thing.’
C20 in @theguardian.com on the Southbank Centre campaign.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
C20 in @theguardian.com on the Southbank Centre campaign.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Architecture film sparks new call to list Southbank Centre
Twentieth Century Society wants London landmark to get listed status with brutalism in Oscars spotlight
www.theguardian.com
February 6, 2025 at 6:37 PM
‘This is the building which often prompts the response “I can’t believe it’s not listed”. Our message for DCMS and the heritage minister, Chris Bryant MP, is: do the right thing.’
C20 in @theguardian.com on the Southbank Centre campaign.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
C20 in @theguardian.com on the Southbank Centre campaign.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...