image for illustration: Centenary Building, Salford by Skip88, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
An appeal has been launched to save the award winning Centenary building after it was announced that it would be demolished, reports Salford Now
Salford Now writes:
The building that won the prestigious Stirling Prize award in 1996, which declared it the UK’s best new building, has struggled to find permanent inhabitants since. From 2016 it hasn’t been used for its intended purpose…
Campaigns Director Oli Marshall said: ‘It’s hugely disappointing that the commendable previous proposals for conversion to a school or for community use have floundered….’
The Stirling award, received by the building 28 years ago, is given out to architects that have made the biggest impact on the past year’s… architecture. … ‘… Once this building was celebrated, and now they want to demolish it, the real kicker is that such a young building should be demolished.’
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