Three winners of the most prestigious prize in British architecture have lent their names to a campaign to save a brutalist landmark in Birmingham city centre that faces demolition to make way for 2.300-home proposals designed by Corstorphine & Wright.

James Roberts’ 1960s Ringway Centre on Smallbrook Queensway is one of the few remaining examples of Birmingham brutalism, and was completed five years before Roberts’ most famous work: the grade II-listed Rotunda.

A campaign to save the now-vacant lower-rise Ringway Centre by repurposing it for commercial and residential use has begun, coinciding with the submission of the Corstorphine & Wright proposals. That scheme, drawn up for developer Commercial Estates Group, was trailed over the summer and features towers of 44, 48 and 56 storeys respectively.

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