The 20thCentury Society (C20) has issued ‘Reuse Them or Lose Them…’, its 2025 Risk List highlighting outstanding 20th and 21st century buildings across the country that are at risk from demolition, dereliction or neglect.
C20 writes:
Reuse Them or Lose Them: the Risk List 2025 highlights outstanding 20th and 21st century buildings across the country that are at risk from demolition, dereliction or neglect. This year the list is dominated by cases from the north of England, with 6 of the 10 buildings featured being from Yorkshire, Lancashire, Tyneside, Merseyside, and Greater Manchester, and only one case from London. From a Bauhaus-inspired 1930s department store in Bradford (2025 City of Culture), to a 1970s brutalist concrete football stand in Newcastle, and a 1980s ‘High-Tech Nissen hut’ in Newham; the list demonstrates the extraordinary breadth of architectural styles that characterises the modern period (1914 – the present day).
For the first time, the Risk List also includes three Millennium-era buildings: The former National Centre for Popular Music in Sheffield (1999), National Wildflower Centre in Knowsley (2000), and Archaeolink Prehistory Park in Aberdeenshire (1997). Some 25 years after the turn of the new Millennium and 30 years since the creation of the National Lottery, which provided the funding for so many of these architecturally ambitious projects, their physical legacy is now increasingly vulnerable and bold new uses are required to ensure their continued survival.
