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London's Southbank Centre finally gets listed status after 35-year battle to secure 60s Brutalist landmark

The new listing marks a major victory for campaigners, who have long argued for the building’s architectural and cultural importance

Evening Standard · Feb 10

‘Like lipstick on a fabulous gorilla’: the Barbican’s many gaudy glow-ups and the one to top them all

The brutalist arts-and-towers complex, where even great explorers get lost, is showing its age. Let’s hope the 50th anniveresary upgrade is better than the ‘pointillist stippling’ tried in the 1990s

The Guardian - UK · Dec 12, 2025

London mural by key postwar artist saved from demolition

William Mitchell artwork saved but Blackheath community centre in which it was housed will be torn down

The Guardian - UK · Apr 8, 2025

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Praised, then razed: why is UK’s best building of 1996 being demolished?

The Centenary Building in Salford was described as ‘dynamic and sophisticated’ when it won the first Stirling prize. Now it is to be knocked down as part of a colossal development

The Guardian - UK · Feb 8, 2025

School's out! Classroom designed by Stirling Prize winners up for sale

The pod was designed by the Stirling Prize-winning architects Future Systems, but is heading for the scrapheap unless a new home can be found

Evening Standard · Oct 22, 2024

Campaign launched to save ‘boringly ugly’ 1980s BT phone boxes

The KX100 design caused controversy when it replaced the classic red phone box – but now a handful may be given listed status

The Guardian - UK · Jun 6, 2024

Michael Gove approves ‘derided’ £400m development on London’s South Bank

Office complex nicknamed the Slab given go-ahead despite fierce opposition from green and modernist architecture campaigners

The Guardian - UK · Feb 6, 2024

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The love it or hate it giant Swansea building some people think should be listed

It's a brutalist concrete and glass slab of a building with a potential new future ahead - but opinion is divided on whether it should be preserved for future generations

Wales Online · Apr 25, 2023

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