09-04-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com

‘It’s unjust’: charity fights to save UK’s at-risk modern buildings

Millennium-era buildings – including Sheffield’s ‘kettle building’ – among a number of landmarks facing demolitionWhat happened to UK’s millennium projects?Sheffielders describe it as “alien-shaped” and like a “kettle” but it seems the former National Centre for Popular Music may soon be consigned to history, with the distinctive building at risk of being bulldozed.The Marmite structure – soon to be vacated by its current occupant
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