Recent discussion on Coventry’s iconic town centre have highlighted the vulnerability of the architectural - and landscape architectural heritage of the post-war period. In this final post of the series Luca Csepely-Knorr and Karen Fitzsimon highlight a few examples that have already gone, have been altered irreversibly or are under threat to be lost.

In her new book, Building Brands: Corporations and Modern Architecture, Grace Ong Yan discusses the evolution of architectural branding in mid-twentieth century America. Through in-depth case studies, she demonstrates how clients and architects together crafted buildings to reflect their company’s brand, carefully considering consumers’ perception and their emotions towards the architecture and the messages they communicated.

The role played by women design professionals in shaping the modern Danish welfare state has long been ignored, while a select band of male architects is ceaselessly glorified.

What do a stadium and an active volcano in Costa Rica have in common? Turning to geoaesthetics, Valeria Guzmán Verri examines this encounter to reframe discussions about the impact China’s foreign-aid projects are having in the Global South.

The Hungarian architect Mariann Simon discusses the frictions between egalitarian ideologies and gendered realities that faced women architects pursuing their careers in the post-war Eastern Bloc states.

Luca Csepely-Knorr and Karen Fitzsimon look at the far-ranging impacts of Sylvia Crowe and Janet Jack, influential not just for their radical projects and publications, but also for shattering the barriers facing women in the profession, and helping others in their wake

To mark LGBT History Month, the  SAHGB's LGBTQ+ Network is delighted to present an excerpt from Lizzie Osborne’s ‘Cesspits of Filth’ project. In this investigation of Huddersfield’s Gemini club, the ‘Studio 54 of the North’, Osborne writes that the project aimed to 'reappropriate British vernaculars in a way that expressed the subliminal coding of desire and expression’ by offering a spatial and experiential reconstruction of the former queer night club.

What is it about architecture, and heritage in particular, that beckons us to travel? And what changes when we are forced into virtual experiences of place? Through an exploration of a discarded modernist monument, Ontario Place in Toronto, Shelley Hornstein considers how we might use virtual tools and new perspectives on travel and tourism to reinvigorate the physical site, and proposes that imagination is precisely what is needed to harness their cultural, historic and social qualities.

The Society’s Treasurer, Luca Jellinik, introduces Claxity.com, a web-based series of articles about the architectural heritage embodied by this vast, almost forgotten body of work.