3 London Buildings Appear On This 'Top 10 At Risk' List

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The Museum of London and Bastion Home (the tall gray constructing to the proper) each face the chop. Picture: Robert Evans

Three London buildings function within the C20 Society’s roll name of the highest 10 buildings in danger in 2023.

The record — a subjective assortment of probably the most notable in danger buildings, slightly than these most vulnerable to all — names the Museum of London and Bastion Home; Westminster’s Channel 4 headquarters; and the Jagonari Centre in Whitechapel. (So in reality, for those who depend the Museum of London and Bastion Home as separate entities, that is 4 London buildings.)

Richard Roger’s Channel 4 headquarters might be vulnerable to being offered off and altered, says the C20 Society. Picture: RHSP

The proposed demolition of the now-vacated Museum of London and the close by brooding Bastion Home is extremely controversial, not least as a result of campaigners consider the Seventies buildings needs to be retrofitted, slightly than bulldozed. The London Wall museum constructing is the work of architects Powell & Moya — behemoths within the postwar constructing growth, and answerable for the South Financial institution’s long-gone Skylon, and Chichester Pageant Theatre.

Although some industrial employees stay positioned within the Richard Rogers-designed Channel 4 Headquarters following the broadcaster’s transfer to Leeds in 2019, the C20 Society is worried that if  the on-off threatened  privatisation of Channel 4 ever does occur, this constructing with placing ‘inside-out’ touches might be one of many first belongings to go. That, in flip, might result in redevelopment or main alteration — which is why the C20 Society needs to see it listed.

The Jagonari Centre was designed by Matrix, an all-female collective of architects. Picture: Pam Isherwood

In all probability the least-known London constructing on the record, the Jagonari Centre was designed by Matrix, an all-female collective of architects, as a Bengali ladies’s useful resource centre. Its particular particulars, together with mosaics and ornamental ‘jali’ window grilles, at the moment are stated to be below menace, because the centre closed in 2015, and was taken over by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets for different makes use of.

Elsewhere within the UK, the C20 Society record names pyramid-shaped The Level in Milton Keynes, and the artwork deco Riviera Resort in Weymouth.