{"id":308906,"date":"2025-12-10T13:20:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T13:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/308906\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T13:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T13:20:11","slug":"calatravas-only-uk-project-among-10-featured-buildings-now-eligible-for-listing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/308906\/","title":{"rendered":"Calatrava\u2019s only UK project among 10 featured buildings now eligible for listing"},"content":{"rendered":"

The heritage campaign group announced its Coming of Age list today (14 November) and called for the government and Historic England to consider listing the 10 structures. <\/p>\n

Also on the list are Burrell Foley Fischer\u2019s Harbour Lights Southampton cinema; Neasden\u2019s Hindu temple \u2013 once the largest temple built outside of India, Hopkins\u2019 Queens Building, Emmanuel College building in Cambridge, and the first completed project by N\u00edall McLaughlin, the Photographer\u2019s Hide, in Northamptonshire.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The other five buildings are ZED Factory\u2019s Hope House in Hampton, Lifschutz; Davidson, Sandilands\u2019 Broadwell housing in Lambeth; Napper Collerton Partnership + Arup\u2019s Tees Barrage in Stockton-on-Tees; Kennedy Fitzgerald & Associates\u2019 St Brigid\u2019s Church in Belfast; and Techniquest, Cardiff\u00a0 \u2013 the UK\u2019s first science discovery centre, designed by Ahrends Burton and Koralek.<\/p>\n

Thirty is the age that buildings become eligible for listing. Government guidance states that buildings under 30 years of age are not usually considered eligible because \u2018they have yet to stand the test of time\u2019. <\/p>\n

The Twentieth Century Society says that turning 30 is also when buildings are \u2018likely to require their first major refurbishment\u2019 and often face their \u2018nadir\u2019 or risk being redeveloped. <\/p>\n

Twentieth Century Society campaigns director Oli Marshall commented: \u2018Now That\u2019s What I Call Architecture, 1995! The wonderfully rich and varied buildings on our annual Coming of Age list offer us a snapshot of the now not-so-recent past. They act as vivid manifestations of Britain\u2019s aspirations and priorities at a time, in the mid-1990s, which is now at the centre of our cultural nostalgia, but probably more distant than we might think from our world today.<\/p>\n

\u2018We say: why wait until the bulldozers are poised, to intervene and recognise outstanding buildings like these, when it is possible to make an objective judgement far earlier? C20\u2019s \u2018End of Year Honours List\u2019 is the gong for modern heritage, signalling that, for these outstanding projects, national listing surely awaits.\u2019<\/p>\n

In October, the AJ revealed\u00a0that Labour ministers have repeatedly overruled<\/a> official listing advice from Historic England. This has affected 20th-century buildings in particular.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Historic England has refused to recommend listing several major 20th-century projects, including Foster + Partners\u2019 23-year-old former City Hall building, which was refused listing for the second time<\/a> in July last year ahead of its oveerhaul by Gensler, and Alban Gate \u2013 the green-glass City of London office block by National Theatre architect Denys Lasdun \u2013 which was refused listing<\/a> in September 2023 ahead of an AHMM redevelopment.<\/p>\n

However, last month, MacCormac Jamieson Prichard\u2019s Southwark Station<\/a>, part of London\u2019s Jubilee Line Extension, was Grade II listed despite only being completed in 1999. Other schemes listed before their 30th birthday include James Stirling and Michael Wilford & Partners\u2019 No\u00a01 Poultry, which\u00a0was\u00a0listed at Grade II* in 2016 despite being completed in 1994.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Twentieth Century Society citations for its Coming of Age list
\nBAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir (Neasden Temple), Brent, London, by Chandrakant Sompura<\/p>\n

East meets West in suburban Neasden at what was Europe\u2019s first traditional Hindu Mandir, and for a long time the largest temple ever built outside of India. The herculean \u00a312 million, five-year project employed some 450 craftsmen and 1,000 volunteers, and was built entirely using traditional methods and materials, with no structural steel. A masterpiece of exquisite Indian craftsmanship, 5,000 tonnes of Italian and Indian marble and the finest Bulgarian limestone were hand-carved in India before being assembled in London, while the adjoining timber Haveli courtyard uses Burmese Teak and English Oak<\/p>\n

Harbour Lights Cinema, Southampton, by Burrell Foley Fischer<\/p>\n

Among the mediocrity of Southampton waterfront\u2019s 1980s and 90s redevelopment, Harbour Lights stands out as perhaps the most original new cinema building in Britain over the last 40 years. Described by architectural critic and Sotonian, Owen Hatherley, as \u2018a beacon of confident and optimistic 1990s architecture, where you can both gaze outwards at the marina and gaze inwards at the cinematic dreamworld. It is an irreplaceable building, a time capsule of a more open, cosmopolitan city\u2019.<\/p>\n

Trinity Footbridge, Salford, Manchester, by Santiago Calatrava<\/p>\n

The first pedestrian crossing of the River Irwell, the Trinity Bridge linked the adjoining cities of Salford and Manchester and symbolically marked the first phase of regeneration of the former docklands. The design is a 79m-long asymmetric cable-stayed bridge, in trademark white-painted steel, with striking cable geometry from the 60-degree tilted, cigar-shaped pylon. One of Calatrava\u2019s earliest bridge works, remarkably, it remains the only UK project by the feted Spanish-Swiss architect.<\/p>\n

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Broadwell Housing. Photo: James Brittain<\/p>\n

Hope House, Hampton, London, by ZED Factory<\/p>\n

Bill and Sue Dunster\u2019s Hope House was the first experimental \u2018ZED\u2018 project, which eventually led to the large-scale BedZED in 2002. Sitting on a floodplain at the confluence of three waterways, the building is reached by a bridge with a flood-resistant brick ground floor supporting a two-storey weatherboarded timber frame. A faceted south-facing conservatory is clad with photovoltaic panels and solar heating tubes at the upper level, with an internal cantilevered balcony terrace connecting all floors, testing the many possibilities of flexibly planned, economic, zero-energy housing.<\/p>\n

Broadwell Housing, Lambeth, London, by Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands<\/p>\n

In a decade that represented something of a nadir for socially oriented housing, and at a time when much of the South Bank was still bleak and unattractive, Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands\u2019 Broadwell Housing development for the Coin Street Community Builders is especially worthy of celebration \u2013 both for its elegant design of \u201clong-life, loose-fit\u201d homes, with gabled roofs that give each house a clear identity, and as a model of community-led urban regeneration and co-operative ownership.<\/p>\n

Queens Building, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, by Hopkins Architects<\/p>\n

Enclosed by a colonnade and clad extensively in Ketton limestone, referencing the nearby College chapel designed by Sir Christopher Wren in 1673, Hopkins\u2019 Queens Building provided an intimate yet highly tuned double-height auditorium for lectures and recitals at Emmanuel College. Like the practice\u2019s Glyndebourne project from the previous year, it demonstrated the practice\u2019s sensitivity in fusing High-Tech and vernacular architecture in harmony with the historic setting.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Tees Barrage. Photo: Napper Architects<\/p>\n

Tees Barage, Stockton-on-Tees, by Napper Collerton Partnership and Arup<\/p>\n

Evoking a supersized Pont des Arts, this elegant 160m-long barrage spans the unsightly tidal mudflats of the Tees with a collection of road and footbridges, two control pavilions, a fish ladder and a canoe slalom. Extending the Teesside tradition of virtuoso steel structures, as previously demonstrated by the iconic Transporter Bridge, the sequence of cast tubular steel arches with airy filigree tracing showcases a Po-Mo verve that was increasingly out of fashion by the mid-90s.<\/p>\n

St Brigid\u2019s Church, Belfast, by Kennedy Fitzgerald & Associates<\/p>\n

The \u2018cradle of Catholicism in Belfast\u2019, this is the second St Brigid\u2019s Church on the site. The 1891 original was enlarged in the 1960s as the parish grew and subsequently damaged by IRA bombings in the 70s; in 1989 the decision was taken to build a new church. Kennedy Fitzgerald & Associates winning scheme is a simple hall on a traditional plan, with glass block clerestory, a roof of steel trusses clad in pitch pine, and brickwork influenced by the vernacular character of Victorian Belfast. With playful drums, turrets and a slender bell tower, this is Dudok meets Cloud City by way of Ulster.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Photographer\u2019s Hide, Northamptonshire, by N\u00edall McLaughlin Architects<\/p>\n

Hovering over a pond on the site of a former US Air Force base, McLaughlin\u2019s first complete building is a highly original dragonfly of organic architecture, containing a small studio, sauna and bedroom. The client was a wildlife photographer and the building\u2019s scaly glass-fibre canopies, perforated metal wings and blind blockwork \u2018shack\u2019, with projector room style openings, draw inspiration from both their insectine subject matter and military debris strewn across the site.\u00a0 Costing only \u00a315,000 and built entirely from models with no formal plans, this tiny project helped the studio win Young Architect of the Year. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Techniquest, Cardiff, by Ahrends Burton and Koralek<\/p>\n

A flagship project in the regeneration of the former Cardiff Docks, Techniquest was the UK\u2019s first science discovery centre. Built around the iron frame of a late-19th-century repair workshop of the Mount Stuart Dry Dock, here the retained element becomes the foil to a series of playful interventions. An external scaffold of tubes and tension rods buttresses the structural glass walls, while internally the open-plan exhibition hall is animated by information pods, a gallery and randomly placed exhibits in joyful primary colours.<\/p>\n

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