Post-war housing estate Robin Hood Gardens has topped a list drawn up by preservation body Twentieth Century Society, ranking the 10 most important 20th-century buildings in the UK to have been lost to the wrecking ball.
The Lost Modern List includes a Sainsbury's shopping centre, two car parks, a corset factory and a library, as well as Alison and Peter Smithson's Robin Hood Gardens, which is currently being disassembled piece by piece.
The list was drawn up by the Twentieth Century Society's director Catherine Croft to draw attention to the lack of 20th-century architecture protected by heritage listings.
"As a society we tend to under-value architectural accomplishments of the preceding generation," she said. "But in time the most loathed and deeply unfashionable buildings can end up both loved and listed." "It's hard to remember just how reviled Victorian Gothic once was, now that St Pancras, which was only saved by the efforts of John Betjeman and the Victorian Society, is a treasured masterpiece and a glamorous hotel."
Two designs by Owen Luder make the list ? the architect has seen both his Tricorn and Trinity Square developments demolished within his lifetime.
Speaking to Dezeen for a series of articles on brutalist architecture in 2014, he said: "In the sixties my buildings were awarded, in the seventies they were applauded, in the eighties they were questioned, in the nineties they were ridiculed, and when we get through to ...