"Stunning" car park will be demolished to make way for Eric Parry-designed hotel
The demolition of a brutalist-era car park behind London's Oxford Street has been approved to make way for a hotel designed by Eric Parry Architects.
Westminister Council has approved the demolition of the Welbeck Street car park, which was designed by Michael Blampied and Partners in 1971 for the department store Debenhams.
It will now be torn down to make way for a 10-storey hotel with a spa, restaurant and roof terrace. Designed by Eric Parry Architects, the new building will feature a decorative facade created from ceramic tiles.
Welbeck Street car park, which features a diamond-patterned facade made up from prefabricated concrete, is the latest in a spate of mid-century buildings facing demolition in the UK.
There were a number of objectors to the demolition. "Quite how this building can be described as bland, uninspired, lacking historic or aesthetic value is totally beyond me,"Â commented one objector on the online planning portal.
"Yes it may need a clean and the ground floor levels have not been looked after but look up! This building is stunning."
Meanwhile, neighbouring members' club, the Oriental Club, protested that the height of the proposed hotel would block sunlight from its premises.
Welbeck Street car park was designed by Michael Blampied and Partners in 1971 for department store Debenhams. Photograph by Artur Salisz
The car park was denied listed status by the government heritage body Historic England, and was put up for sale b...
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