A 1960s power station in Nottinghamshire tops the latest “Risk List” produced by campaign group the Twentieth Century Society – featuring above Barbican architects Powell & Moya’s Museum of London and Richard Rogers’ Channel 4 headquarters.

The C20 Society said that while Rogers’ 1994 building and the 70s museum faced an uncertain future, there was a particularly pressing need for the architectural significance of post-war power stations to be recognised and for new uses for them to be found.

As a result, it has listed the 106m tall cooling towers of West Burton A Power Station at the top of its 2023 Risk List. The society said the cooling towers, built between 1961-67 to plans by Architects Design Group, were the oldest 1960s cooling towers that remain in use.

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