image for illustration: Centenary Building, Salford by Skip88, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
The Centenary Building, which won the inaugural design gong in 1996, will be bulldozed as part of the wider £2.5bn Crescent regeneration project, reports Place North West.
Place North West writes:
The University of Salford-owned building… Designed by Hodder + Partners… is one of only two North West winners of the Stirling Prize in the 28-year history of the award…
… University of Salford said: ‘While the Centenary Building has been part of our university estate for a number of decades. Unfortunately, its ageing infrastructure means it no longer meets modern standards and requirements. It has now been vacant for a third of its built life.
Stephen Hodder… ‘It is with great dismay that we received the news that Salford University intends to demolish the Centenary Building…. I simply cannot support the demolition of a building that is only thirty years old,’…
