Listing bid launched to protect David Chipperfield's first major building in UK

Conservation group Twentieth Century Society has submitted a listing application for the River and Rowing Museum in Oxfordshire, aiming to protect the future of David Chipperfield's first significant project.

Built in 1997 in Henley, the River and Rowing Museum is considered to be Chipperfield's first major UK project and the precursor to a portfolio of significant cultural buildings. The museum closed last year, leaving its future uncertain.

The Twentieth Century Society has submitted...