The Bernat Klein Studio near Galashiels is going to be auctioned tomorrow, 30 July
You can still support heritage organisations in trying to buy this outstanding Modernist building by giving at www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/saving-pet...
Keep your fingers crossed that the coalition can get the building!
29.07.2025 19:42 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Support Scottish heritage organisations to buy Bernat Klein Studio, near Galashiels
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/7nPrRvgl
The late-Modernist building of 1972, designed by architect Peter Womersley, is to be auctioned on 30 July. Listed and vacant, this architectural marvel needs urgent saving!
23.07.2025 12:32 — 👍 9 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 2
This is exciting and very welcome news!
23.07.2025 12:08 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Less than three weeks until our 20th-century architecture tour of Aberdeen City on Saturday, 02 August
The day will include a former swimming pool, university buildings, residential tower blocks and more. The morning is on foot and the afternoon by minibus
TicketTailor.com/events/DocomomoScotland
14.07.2025 20:08 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Join us for a tour of #Aberdeen on 02 August to explore the city's rich architectural heritage of the mid- to late 20th century. The guided tour will include mass housing, the Bon Accord Baths, Gray's School of Art and more.
11am-5pm on foot and by minibus
TicketTailor.com/events/docomomoscotland
01.07.2025 20:23 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
THIS SATURDAY, 21 June, Edinburgh walk from King's Buildings to Cameron Toll to discover fascinating 20th-century Modernist architectural heritage
The walk, from 12:30 to 15:00, will be guided by Dr Clive Fenton and Carsten Hermann.
More info & tickets at
TicketTailor.com/events/docomomoscotland
19.06.2025 20:04 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Lead on, Macduff: how the tide turned for Aberdeenshire’s art deco lido
The pavilion at Tarlair lido, on the coast outside Macduff, has reopened after a decade-long restoration campaign. Now swimmers await the whistle to hit the pools again
Lead on, Macduff: how the tide turned for Aberdeenshire’s #ArtDeco lido at Tarlair @theguardian.com story on community action that's led to this pavilion's restoration. Next stage is to reopen the adjoining sea pools 🏊 @future-lidos.bsky.social 💚 #ArtDecoCentenary www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
02.06.2025 19:57 — 👍 20 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1
Join us on Saturday, 21 June, for a guided walk to explore 20th-century architecture in south Edinburgh: from Blackford Avenue via King's Buildings to Nether Liberton.
We'll take a look at houses and commercial and educational buildings.
Info and tickets at TicketTailor.com/events/docomomoscotland
12.06.2025 19:15 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Join Andrew for a walking tour of Livingston new town and its splendid public art this Saturday (June 7th) - the sun is sure to shine! 😎
04.06.2025 14:49 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Join us on 21 June for a guided walk in Edinburgh from King's Buildings to Cameron Toll with a few other stops on the way. The walk will include various 20th-century buildings, ranging from private houses to commercial, educational and healthcare facilities.
tickettailor.com/events/docomomoscotland
28.05.2025 23:00 — 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Hmm, quite...
25.05.2025 19:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
44 George street, edinburgh, a Georgian tenement (1775 approx) with a characterful post-modern shop frontage (1984-85). Operated as Trotters Opticians until 2023.
Category B listed 44 George Street ('Trotters') offers a characterful & high-quality pomo frontage by Simpson & Brown, a valuable contribution to Edinburgh's modern heritage. Apps in now on proposed changes to the shopfront & interior-have your say! citydev-portal.edinburgh.gov.uk/idoxpa-web/a...
25.05.2025 17:20 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
Rediscovering Modernism in Africa: From Nostalgia to Optimism
Rediscovering the history of African Modernism and its impact on architecture and nation-building across the continent.
Happy Africa Day.
Time for a reminder that in the mid 20th century, in newly independent countries across Africa, modernist architecture emerged as a powerful symbol of national identity, ambition, and the collective aspiration for a brighter future.
www.archdaily.com/1021063/redi...
25.05.2025 14:35 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
EVENT: Join C20 for a curator tour of the RIBA exhibition 'Difficult Sites: Architecture Against the Odds', exploring remarkable achievements in the face of tricky terrain, awkward urban plots, and challenging remodels.
📍RIBA Gallery
🗓️ Tue 29 Apr, 6:30pm
🎟️ secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...
15.04.2025 09:31 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Our Book of the Week is ‘Art Deco Scotland’
Author Bruce Peter guides us through a diverse range of Art Deco villas, shops, cinemas, ocean liners and more from the HES collection.
bookshop.rias.org.uk/products/art-deco-scotland-design-and-architecture-in-the-jazz-age
15.04.2025 10:40 — 👍 14 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
What's better than a modernist Scottish church? Very little! A potential 'gift to self'. Matthew Dransfield's (@brutalbasil on Instagram) 'Modernist Churches of Scotland' pocketbook is available now....
@themodernist.bsky.social modernist.org/collections/books/products/modernist-churches-of-scotland
11.04.2025 15:37 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Struck by the crisp and elegant Shrewsbury market hall, 1965, by David Aberdeen (who also designed Congress House).
09.04.2025 20:23 — 👍 49 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
⚡ Power from the Glens – The Story of Scotland’s Hydroelectric Revolution!
Join Dr Alistair Fair & Dr Harriet Richardson Blakeman as they explore the architecture & impact of these 20th-century marvels.
📅 Mon 14 April, 6:30pm
📍 Edinburgh & Online
💷 £6 (£2 students)
🎟️ buff.ly/zNApZ1D
24.03.2025 12:01 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 3
What a beauty! Sign the petition!
04.02.2025 18:46 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Scotland's Superpits: Talk on 20 February in person and online
Dr Miles Oglethorpe will outline the history of coal mining in Scotland in the 20th century and explore the emergence of superpits and their architectural development
Info & tickets £7/£5/£3 at tickettailor.com/events/docomomoscotland
28.01.2025 21:49 — 👍 16 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1
Share pictures and stories of your favourite brutalist buildings
We want to see people’s most loved brutalist buildings around the world and why people treasure them
📸 Love brutalist architecture as much as we do?
The Guardian is doing a call-out for photos of your favourite brutalist buildings worldwide: from well-known landmarks to hidden gems. Get to it!
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
24.01.2025 10:33 — 👍 45 🔁 13 💬 8 📌 4
Fantastic news! A great effort by all involved to improve understanding & appreciation of the Scottish new towns. We're sure this timely exploration will become a valuable resource for those interested in modern Scottish history, architecture & planning.
23.01.2025 13:41 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
One for the diary! Looking forward to hearing more about Fiona's work for these important buildings.
20.01.2025 14:48 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
For all who love new town art and want to know more, this looks great.
20.01.2025 13:51 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Where We Live Now - 3. New Town, Home Town
First transmitted in 1979, writer Colin Ward sets out to discover the truth about Britain's New Towns.
If post war architecture and planning is your bag, I can heartily recommend this 1979 documentary on New Towns. Harlow, Peterlee, Runcorn and Milton Keynes are all there in their 1970’s glory. A real gem.
@grindrod.bsky.social @municipaldreams.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
19.01.2025 14:38 — 👍 65 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 1
Wonderful that the Brambell Zoology Building at Bangor University has been listed at Grade II! 1971, William Marsden for Percy Thomas & Sons
coflein.gov.uk/en/site/424425
10.01.2025 12:07 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
New Life for Remarkable Buildings
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#SAVEis50
Public art and New Towns. Scotland and elsewhere.
The Isokon Gallery tells the remarkable story of the pioneering modern apartment block opened in 1934 as an experiment in new urban living. Open from March to the end of November, 11 am - 4 pm, on Saturdays and Sundays https://isokongallery.org/
Bringing together all those interested in the built environment's history.
All Periods, All Places, All Welcome.
www.sahgb.org.uk
Scotland's Architecture Bookshop offering wide range of contracts, books and gifts. Part of The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland.
bookshop.rias.org.uk
uk.bookshop.org/shop/RIASBookshop
magazine, bookshop, gallery, publisher, events. 20th century architecture & design. a non profit social enterprise.
https://the-modernist.org/
https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/themodernist
CBHC yw'r corff cenedlaethol archwiliadau ac archif ar gyfer amgylchedd hanesyddol Cymru | RCAHMW is the national body of survey and archive for the historic environment of Wales
cbhc.gov.uk | rcahmw.gov.uk | coflein.gov.uk | youtube.com/@rcahmw
Conservation architect, chair of RIAS Practice Committee, past chair of the AHSS, NTS Trustee, occasional member of the Scottish fencing team, circular saw victim.
The nation’s advocate for modern architecture landscapes and design. www.docomomo-us.org
Scottish European | #GreenYes | Academic | Lace knitter | Concrete enthusiast | Gaelic women's poetry | Celtic/Gaelic Revivals | Still acknowledging ongoing pandemic (She/her)
Clyde-built. Recovered shambrarian, monger of metadata and fettler of systems. Genealogy/Local history. Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.
Historic Buildings Investigator @ Royal Commission Wales | Nonconformist Chapels | C20 Built Heritage | Digital Technologies in Heritage | Countryside & Dogs | O Gymru - Dysgwr | Personal Account
Le GIP - Centre de recherche du château de Versailles a pour objet la #recherche et la #formation sur les lieux et expressions du pouvoir au château Versailles et en Europe
Site web, portail de ressources, réseaux sociaux ▶ https://linktr.ee/crcversailles
/Architectural Historian interested in the Welsh country house and garden
/PhD on St Fagans Castle from the Institute for the Study of Welsh Estates
/Resident Building Historian for Cartrefi Cymru on S4C Clic & BBC iPlayer
/www.bethanscorey.com
Devotee of the mid-century arts.
An independent charity that seeks to fund blue skies research and scholarship. Follow this channel for details on upcoming grant deadlines, published research, scheme opening dates, grant announcements, events, and more. https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/
Historian of modern and contemporary Scotland: deindustrialisation, regional policy, housing, new towns, women and work | Feminist, mum and Paisley Buddy | she/her
https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/dr-valerie-wright
Feminist, gardener, knitter, cyclist. Professor of Modern History Uni of Glasgow, gender history, oral history, textiles esp knit
GBPT is a charity that works to rescue, repair and restore historic buildings at risk across Glasgow. Established 1982. Organisers of @Glasgowdodf since 1990.
