United Kingdom - the places I have been

2019

Jodrell Bank Observatory

Located in a rural area of northwest England, free from radio interference, Jodrell Bank is one of the world’s leading radio astronomy observatories. At the beginning of its use, in 1945, the site housed research on cosmic rays detected by radar echoes….

Assembly Hall, Bootham School

World’s End Estate

Nuffield Transplantation Surgery Unit (Western General Hospital)

1971

Brixton Recreation Centre

1962

Ulster Museum Extension

1980

Arts Barn, University of Bath

1966

DEMOLISHED

Robin Hood Gardens

Keeling House

1988

Tower of London

The massive White Tower is a typical example of Norman military architecture, whose influence was felt throughout the kingdom. It was built on the Thames by William the Conqueror to protect London and assert his power. The Tower of London – an imp…

1987

Blenheim Palace

Blenheim Palace, near Oxford, stands in a romantic park created by the famous landscape gardener ‘Capability’ Brown. It was presented by the English nation to John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough, in recognition of his victory in 1704 over French a…

1964

Lambeth Towers

Central Hall, University of York

2004

Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City

Six areas in the historic centre and docklands of the maritime mercantile City of Liverpool bear witness to the development of one of the world’s major trading centres in the 18th and 19th centuries. Liverpool played an important role in the growt…

Crown Building CP2

1957

St Bride’s Roman Catholic Church

1965

Wates Blocks

Alton Estate West

1986

Durham Castle and Cathedral

Durham Cathedral was built in the late 11th and early 12th centuries to house the relics of St Cuthbert (evangelizer of Northumbria) and the Venerable Bede. It attests to the importance of the early Benedictine monastic community and is the largest and …

Assembly Rooms

2021

The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales

The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales illustrates the transformation that industrial slate quarrying and mining brought about in the traditional rural environment of the mountains and valleys of the Snowdon massif. The territory, extending from mountai…

1972

Macadam Building, King’s College London

Queen Elisabeth II Law Courts

Annex “Old Vic” Theater

2015

The Forth Bridge

This railway bridge, crossing the Forth estuary in Scotland, had the world’s longest spans (541 m) when it opened in 1890. It remains one of the greatest cantilever trussed bridges and continues to carry passengers and freight. Its distinctive industr…

Studio Bernat Klein

School of Music, Cardiff University

Cambridge School of Architecture

1957

Engineering Building, Leicester University

Hudson Beare Lecture Theatre, Edinburgh University

2001

Derwent Valley Mills

The Derwent Valley in central England contains a series of 18th- and 19th- century cotton mills and an industrial landscape of high historical and technological interest. The modern factory owes its origins to the mills at Cromford, where Richard Arkwri…

Cranbrook Estate

1963

Sports Hall, University of Hull

1962

University of East Anglia (UEA)

Trinity Hall

DEMOLISHED

Knottingley Sports Centre

Worsley Medical and Dental Building

1962

Wyndham Court

1960

Hilda Besse Building, St. Antony’s College

Eros House

Roger Stevens Building, University of Leeds

1955

Sugden House

Keble College

Park Hill

Grantchester Road Residential Building

1986

Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of Fountains Abbey

In the 18th century a designed landscape of exceptional beauty was created around the ruins of the Cistercian Fountains Abbey, in Yorkshire. The spectacular ruins of the 12th century abbey and water mill, the Jacobean mansion of Fountains Hall, the Vict…

1959

Allbrook House and Roehampton Library

1965

Barbican Estate

DEMOLISHED

Heygate Estate

Gascoyne Estate, Bentham Road

Trellick Tower

Welbeck Street Car Park

Workshops & Housing, Loudoun Road

Needler Hall, Hall of Residence, University of Hull

Northern Co-operative Store (“Norco House”, today: John Lewis Store),

Moore Street Electricity Substation

1986

Ironbridge Gorge

Ironbridge is known throughout the world as the symbol of the Industrial Revolution. It contains all the elements of progress that contributed to the rapid development of this industrial region in the 18th century, from the mines themselves to the railw…

1972

New Hall Place / Royal Sun Alliance Building (today The Capital)

DEMOLISHED

Derwent Tower (Dunston Rocket)

Bank House

DEMOLISHED

Runcorn New Town (Southgate Estate)

1959

St James’s Place

1986

Giant’s Causeway and Causeway Coast

The Giant’s Causeway lies at the foot of the basalt cliffs along the sea coast on the edge of the Antrim plateau in Northern Ireland. It is made up of some 40,000 massive black basalt columns sticking out of the sea. The dramatic sight has inspired lege…

Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool

Wolfson Institute, Hammersmith Hospital

Lyttelton House

2017

The English Lake District

Located in northwest England, the English Lake District is a mountainous area, whose valleys have been modelled by glaciers in the Ice Age and subsequently shaped by an agro-pastoral land-use system characterized by fields enclosed by walls. The combine…

2001

Dorset and East Devon Coast

The cliff exposures along the Dorset and East Devon coast provide an almost continuous sequence of rock formations spanning the Mesozoic Era, or some 185 million years of the earth’s history. The area’s important fossil sites and classic coastal geomorp…

1968

DEMOLISHED

Horizon Building

Castle Car Park, Templar Square

New Street Signal Box

St. Peter and Paul Church (Cathedral of Clifton)

1967

Denys Wilkinson Building

1987

City of Bath

Founded by the Romans as a thermal spa, Bath became an important centre of the wool industry in the Middle Ages. In the 18th century, under George III, it developed into an elegant town with neoclassical Palladian buildings, which blend harmoniously wit…

Adam Smith Building, University of Glasgow

1964

Civil Aviation Authority Building

1965

Dining Hall, Darwin College

1986

Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites

Stonehenge and Avebury, in Wiltshire, are among the most famous groups of megaliths in the world. The two sanctuaries consist of circles of menhirs arranged in a pattern whose astronomical significance is still being explored. These holy places and the …

1999

Heart of Neolithic Orkney

The group of Neolithic monuments on Orkney consists of a large chambered tomb (Maes Howe), two ceremonial stone circles (the Stones of Stenness and the Ring of Brodgar) and a settlement (Skara Brae), together with a number of unexcavated burial, ceremon…

1961

Lillington Gardens

1971

The Savoy Centre

DEMOLISHED

Hutchesontown C

2000

Blaenavon Industrial Landscape

The area around Blaenavon is evidence of the pre-eminence of South Wales as the world’s major producer of iron and coal in the 19th century. All the necessary elements can still be seen – coal and ore mines, quarries, a primitive railway system, furnace…

1964

DEMOLISHED

St. James Centre

1960

Preston Bus Station

1997

Maritime Greenwich

The ensemble of buildings at Greenwich, an outlying district of London, and the park in which they are set, symbolize English artistic and scientific endeavour in the 17th and 18th centuries. The Queen’s House (by Inigo Jones) was the first Palladian bu…

DEMOLISHED

Tricorn Centre

2006

Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape

Much of the landscape of Cornwall and West Devon was transformed in the 18th and early 19th centuries as a result of the rapid growth of pioneering copper and tin mining. Its deep underground mines, engine houses, foundries, new towns, smallholdings, po…

Showroom Hille (Furniture Hille)

1953

St. Peter’s Seminary

Coralline Walk

1986

Brighthelm Church & Community Centre

Langham House Close (Ham Common)

1963

Balfron Tower

Hyde Park Barracks

20th Century Building on South Hill Park, NW3

1955

Brodie Tower, University of Liverpool

Cumbernauld Town Centre

1987

Frontiers of the Roman Empire

The ‘Roman Limes’ represents the border line of the Roman Empire at its greatest extent in the 2nd century AD. It stretched over 5,000 km from the Atlantic coast of northern Britain, through Europe to the Black Sea, and from there to the Red Sea and…

1988

Henderson Island

Henderson Island, which lies in the eastern South Pacific, is one of the few atolls in the world whose ecology has been practically untouched by a human presence. Its isolated location provides the ideal context for studying the dynamics of insular evol…

Brian Housden House

1969

Perronet House

1967

Templeton College (today: Oxford Saïd Business School)

Hunterian Art Gallery & Mackintosh House

Dunelm House, Durham University

1966

Imperial Hotel

1965

Tinbergen Building, Departement of Zoology and Psychology

1968

Julius Gottlieb Boathouse & Gallery, Carmel College

1960

Economist Cluster

Brunel University Lecture Center

Ministry of Justice

1986

St Kilda

This volcanic archipelago, with its spectacular landscapes, is situated off the coast of the Hebrides and comprises the islands of Hirta, Dun, Soay and Boreray. It has some of the highest cliffs in Europe, which have large colonies of rare and endangere…

Alexandra and Ainsworth Road Estate

1995

Old and New Towns of Edinburgh

Edinburgh has been the Scottish capital since the 15th century. It has two distinct areas: the Old Town, dominated by a medieval fortress; and the neoclassical New Town, whose development from the 18th century onwards had a far-reaching influence on Eur…

1962

Minerals and Physical Metallurgy Building, University of Birmingham

Bodleian Law Library, St. Cross Building, University of Oxford

Peckham Car Park (today: Peckham Levels)

Yorkshire Building Society (High Point)

1970

Norrish Central Library

Apollo Pavilion (Pasmore Pavilion)

1957

Harvey Court (Gonville & Caius College)

1965

Bebington Central Library

Library, SOAS University

1967

Police Station

1959

Churchill College

1968

269 Leigham Court Road

1988

Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine’s Abbey, and St Martin’s Church

Canterbury, in Kent, has been the seat of the spiritual head of the Church of England for nearly five centuries. Canterbury’s other important monuments are the modest Church of St Martin, the oldest church in England; the ruins of the Abbey of St August…

DEMOLISHED

Birmingham Central Library

Tower Hotel

DEMOLISHED

Sampson House

1995

Gough and Inaccessible Islands

The site, located in the south Atlantic, is one of the least-disrupted island and marine ecosystems in the cool temperate zone. The spectacular cliffs of Gough and Inaccessible Islands, towering above the ocean, are free of introduced mammals and home t…

1949

Secondary School (Smithdon High School)

1964

Dawson’s Heights

Czechoslovakian Embassy

Main Spectator Stand, Gala Fairydean Rovers F.C.

2003

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

This historic landscape garden features elements that illustrate significant periods of the art of gardens from the 18th to the 20th centuries. The gardens house botanic collections (conserved plants, living plants and documents) that have been consider…

1971

St. Giles Hotel

2021

The Great Spa Towns of Europe

This transnational property comprises 11 towns, located in seven European countries: Baden bei Wien (Austria); Spa (Belgium); Františkovy Lázně (Czechia); Karlovy Vary (Czechia); Mariánské Lázně (Czechia); Vichy (France); Bad Ems (Germany)…

1961

Hayward Gallery

1964

Andrew Melville Hall, University of St. Andrews

1959

University of Sussex

1968

Salter’s Hall

DEMOLISHED

Marquess Road Estate

Wrexham Police Station

1965

Attenborough (formerly Gardner) Arts Centre, University of Sussex

2001

New Lanark

New Lanark is a small 18th- century village set in a sublime Scottish landscape where the philanthropist and Utopian idealist Robert Owen moulded a model industrial community in the early 19th century. The imposing cotton mill buildings, the spacious an…

1959

St. Matthew

Theological College

2009

Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal

Situated in north-eastern Wales, the 18 kilometre long Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal is a feat of civil engineering of the Industrial Revolution, completed in the early years of the 19th century. Covering a difficult geographical setting, the building…

1962

DEMOLISHED

Trinity Square

DEMOLISHED

Pimlico Academy

2000

Historic Town of St George and Related Fortifications, Bermuda

The Town of St George, founded in 1612, is an outstanding example of the earliest English urban settlement in the New World. Its associated fortifications graphically illustrate the development of English military engineering from the 17th to the 20th c…

2001

Saltaire

Saltaire, West Yorkshire, is a complete and well-preserved industrial village of the second half of the 19th century. Its textile mills, public buildings and workers’ housing are built in a harmonious style of high architectural standards and the urban …

Royal College of Physicians

1958

New Hall (today: Murray Edwards College)

National Theatre

1962

Casson Pavilion, London Zoo

1963

Acland Burghley School

1986

Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd

The castles of Beaumaris and Harlech (largely the work of the greatest military engineer of the time, James of St George) and the fortified complexes of Caernarfon and Conwy are located in the former principality of Gwynedd, in north Wales. These extrem…

1987

Palace of Westminster and Westminster Abbey including Saint Margaret’s Church

Westminster Palace, rebuilt from the year 1840 on the site of important medieval remains, is a fine example of neo-Gothic architecture. The site – which also comprises the small medieval Church of Saint Margaret, built in Perpendicular Gothic styl…

1967

Brunswick Centre (Fonding Estate)

2016

Gorham’s Cave Complex

The steep limestone cliffs on the eastern side of the Rock of Gibraltar contain four caves with archaeological and paleontological deposits that provide evidence of Neanderthal occupation over a span of more than 100,000 years. This exceptional testimon…