From the ashes of the Blitz, Plymouth rebuilt itself as a city of the future—and this building was its crown.

The Plymouth Civic Centre is the defining landmark of the city's post-war reconstruction. Designed by Jellicoe, Ballantyne & Coleridge and opened by the Queen in 1962, it is a towering masterpiece of civic modernism.

With its shimmering 14-storey slab block and the striking, geometric "Butterfly" roof of the Council House, it bridges the gap between the elegance of the Festival of Britain and the bold, raw power of Brutalism. Recently saved from demolition and Grade II listed, it stands as a monument to a time when architecture was used to signal a new, optimistic era.

Whether you admire it for its Brutalist geometry, its historic significance to the Abercrombie Plan, or simply as a proud Plymothian, this collection celebrates the soaring lines of the city’s most famous icon.

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