A campaign is underway to prevent the demolition of the Welbeck Street Car Park in Marylebone. The car park features an elaborate fronting of prefabricated concrete diamonds, and is the latest in a series of brutalist buildings to face demolition. A petition urging the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan to save the building has now reached nearly 3000 signatures.
The man behind the petition, Lee Mayne has said: “I personally love this building, I can’t help but take a picture every time I pass by.”
“Although I’m not attached to the idea of it staying a car park, I feel this building could very easily be adapted to another use protecting those beautiful diamonds!”
“I feel that we are losing too many brutalist buildings, Robin Hood Gardens and Sampson House amongst many. Let’s rally together to save this one!”
Westminster Council approved the demolition of the Welbeck Street Car Park in August. The demolition will pave the way for a new 10-storey hotel designed by Eric Parry architects. The plans for the car park have split the community, with defenders of the building claiming that it’s too iconic to lose.
Earlier this year an application to have the building listed was denied by the Department for Culture Media and Sport, on the advice of Historic England.
The government heritage adviser said that while Welbeck Street Car Park “stands out nationally as an exemplar of 1960s car parks,” it did not compare well with “more striking and slightly earlier commercial buildings in the pop art movement”.
The Twentieth Century Society is a membership organisation, which campaigns for the conservation of the best 20th Century architecture. They have been vocal supporters of the campaign to protect the car park. A spokeswoman said that, although it is difficult to get people excited about a car park, this building was of huge cultural value. She added that there is still hope for the car park in the form of a new proposal for a hotel, which would preserve the diamond fronting.
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A campaign is underway to prevent the demolition of the Welbeck Street Car Park in Marylebone. The car park features an elaborate fronting of prefabricated concrete diamonds, and is the latest in a series of brutalist buildings to face demolition. A petition urging the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan to save the building has now reached nearly 3000 signatures.
The man behind the petition, Lee Mayne has said: “I personally love this building, I can’t help but take a picture every time I pass by.”
“Although I’m not attached to the idea of it staying a car park, I feel this building could very easily be adapted to another use protecting those beautiful diamonds!”
“I feel that we are losing too many brutalist buildings, Robin Hood Gardens and Sampson House amongst many. Let’s rally together to save this one!”
Westminster Council approved the demolition of the Welbeck Street Car Park in August. The demolition will pave the way for a new 10-storey hotel designed by Eric Parry architects. The plans for the car park have split the community, with defenders of the building claiming that it’s too iconic to lose.
Earlier this year an application to have the building listed was denied by the Department for Culture Media and Sport, on the advice of Historic England.
The government heritage adviser said that while Welbeck Street Car Park “stands out nationally as an exemplar of 1960s car parks,” it did not compare well with “more striking and slightly earlier commercial buildings in the pop art movement”.
The Twentieth Century Society is a membership organisation, which campaigns for the conservation of the best 20th Century architecture. They have been vocal supporters of the campaign to protect the car park. A spokeswoman said that, although it is difficult to get people excited about a car park, this building was of huge cultural value. She added that there is still hope for the car park in the form of a new proposal for a hotel, which would preserve the diamond fronting.
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