A mere 10 floors. So well modelled and proportioned.

Piano's Paddington Cube. It had a controversial gestation, but now there it is and here's my take on it in the RIBAJ for those with the key. ribaj.com/buildings/renz…

NEWS // C20 is supporting plans by Arup to conserve and restore the deteriorating faience facade of the Grade II* listed O2 Academy Brixton. Beginning life as the Art Deco and Italian Renaissance-style Astoria Variety Cinema in 1929, before becoming a discotheque in 1972 and

I know there are bigger worries today, but to do something small and good, please sign this petition to save two excellent #Brutalist towers in #Loughborough. (Great photo by Simon Phipps) change.org/p/save-towers-…

The #bells of #NotreDame have just been ringing for the first time since the fire! (Via ⁦Agence France-Presse⁩)

EVENT // Join C20 Chair Hugh Pearman for our 3rd annual Christmas lecture, on Battle of the Big Beasts: Postwar University Durham A festive romp through Mod and Trad postwar Durham University buildings by everyone from Ove Arup, Basil Spence and Architects’ Co-Partnership, to

Londoners! Tonight, at the capital's best-connected lecture room in Farringdon, I'll be giving the C20 Society winter lecture 'Battle of the Big Beasts: Postwar University Durham'. Basil Spence, George Pace, Daniel Libeskind, Vincent Harris et al. Join me! secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx?t…

'Britain Remade'. Amazing how these organisations suddenly appear, with high production values, fully staffed by fresh-faced spads and thinktankers with interesting haircuts, claiming to be 'grassroots', rather vague as to who funds them: britainremade.co.uk/about

And much too long

9 years ago we thought we'd launch a new kind of architecture award, a kind of antidote to all the flash stuff. Less aesthetics, more ethics. Thus the #MacEwenAward. 'Architecture for the Common Good' we called it. Every year it delivers!

Once again C20 Society is keeping architecture in the news. No UK architecture charity does more to stimulate public debate about and raise the profile of contemporary and modern design. Please support our work if you can!

We had fun doing this

NEWS | It's Coming Home: Following an appeal by C20 Society, we're delighted to announce that the Future Systems classroom pod (2004) in Richmond has been saved from demolition by the Kaplicky Centre. It is now set to be restored and become the first posthumous Jan Kaplický

🔵 Everton's new home by BDP & MEIS architects is a worthy addition to a historic dockside ow.ly/PviM50W6nKv 💪 'It is on a scale & with a tough, industrial quality entirely suited to its site. Walk towards it, it hoves most satisfyingly into view,' says Hugh Pearman

Please BBC Radio 3 don't persist with this slowed-down music thing on the breakfast show. It's excruciating.