Coco Whittaker

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Image credit: Richard Davies

Image credit: Richard Davies

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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👋🏻 As @cocowhittaker.bsky.social waves a fond farewell to C20, she’s penned some recollections of her time on the frontline battling for modern heritage.

From eel, pie & mash shops to Art Deco time-warp houses and space-age leisure centres. Never a dull day!

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Thank you Alborz! And you too

More info here: c20society.org.uk/work-with-us Closing date for applications is midnight on the 7th April

After 4 1/2 wonderful years, I’m saying a very fond farewell to @c20society.bsky.social. I’ve had the best time - I’ve travelled all across the UK advocating for C20th bdgs & have worked with brilliant people. If you care about conserving C20th heritage, do apply for the Head of Casework role

Architecture film sparks new call to list Southbank Centre Twentieth Century Society wants London landmark to get listed status with brutalism in Oscars spotlight

‘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.

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Architecture film sparks new call to list Southbank Centre Twentieth Century Society wants London landmark to get listed status with brutalism in Oscars spotlight

@c20society.bsky.social in the Guardian, campaigning for London’s Southbank Centre - www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

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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.

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It's a long game. Historic England has repeatedly recommended these buildings be listed, so far in vain. But we're very patient. Unique piece of architecture.

Thank you! 💫

Loved researching this case for C20. 1930s newspaper articles referred to the architect as "Mrs RA Gerrard" after her husband so it took a bit of digging to find her name, Molly Gerrard (née Taylor). And the reports on her work at Bath were fantastically sexist -