Campaign group the Twentieth Century Society has named William Whitfield and Andrew Lockwood’s Richmond House in Whitehall as its most-at-risk building of 2019.

Despite being grade II* listed, the 1980s former Department of Health building is earmarked for demolition to make way for a temporary home for the House of Commons under plans being drawn up by AHMM.

It is joined on the C20 Society’s just-published list by the Harlech Theatre in Wales and the former All Saints’ Pastoral Centre and Chapel in Colney, Hertfordshire – both also grade II*-listed. The grade II former Birds Eye headquarters complex in Walton, Surrey, also features on the list after planning permission was granted for its demolition and replacement with 375 homes. Long & Kentish’s youthful British Library Centre for Conservation and parts of the Alton Estate are also under threat.

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