The Future of the Baths
coventrysociety Coventry Swimming Baths and “The Elephant” – Coventry Society’s Position The Coventry Society, like many local organisations and Coventrians, is disappointed that the Council wishes to demolish the Swimming Baths…
Architecture
A New Building Material?
Dezeen Magazine has reported that Australian Researchers have created a building material where rammed earth is encased in permanent cardboard formwork, eliminating the need for cement. Rammed earth is a…
No Fines Concrete – Then and Now!
Following our recent visit to St. John the Devine Church, we thought it might be interesting to research the history and use of No Fines Concrete in Coventry and elsewhere.…
A Library for the 21st Century
Coventry Society Secretary, John Payne, discovered an architectural gem during his recent holiday in the Netherlands. LocHal: Tilburg’s Iconic Library and Cultural Hub Located in a beautifully restored 1930s locomotive…
Alpha House That Jack’s Built
Paul Maddocks, one of Coventry Society’s founder members, has been researching another of Coventry’s “firsts”! Paul writes…… Over the past few months I have been looking at some of Coventry’s…
Coventry Baths Set for Demolition
The BBC has reported that Coventry’s iconic swimming baths is set to be demolished after the council failed to find another use for the building. The building is Grade II…
St. John the Divine and Coventry’s Post War Suburbs
With the CovSoc visit to St. John the Divine Church coming up this week, our Vice Chair, Tim Brown, tells us some of the context of the construction of the…
The Network Rail Building
The Coventry Society supports the campaign by the Westwood Heath History Group to save the Network Rail Building, formerly the Cable & Wireless College, in Westwood Heath Road. The building…
Delia Shortlisted
Coventry University’s Delia Derbyshire Building has been shortlisted as a potential RIBA prize winner. The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) unveiled nine projects that have been nominated across the…
Coventry’s Victorian Heritage
Tim Bridges: The Victorian and Edwardian Buildings of Coventry Since 2006 Tim Bridges has worked as a part-time Conservation Adviser to the Victorian Society covering casework on Victorian and Edwardian…