Demolition of Paul Rudolph's Burroughs Wellcome building underway in North Carolina
Demolition of the Paul Rudolph-designed Burroughs Wellcome building in North Carolina has gone ahead, despite attempts to protest the destruction of the Brutalist landmark.
Heavy machinery has been photographed dismantling the former medical facility where AZT, the first antiretroviral drug approved to treat patients with HIV, was developed.
AIDS activists famously broke into and occupied the building in 1989 to protest the company's price gouging of the lifesaving medicine.
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United Therapeutics Corporation obtained a permit to demolish the building in September 2020.
A spokesperson for the biotechnology company told local paper The News and Observer that the site will be cleared by April. "The destruction of Burroughs Wellcome is a deep wound to this country's cultural heritage," the Paul Rudolph Heritage Foundation wrote in response to the news.
"That makes us even more committed to keeping urging, advising, and campaigning for the preservation and proper care of Paul Rudolph's architectural legacy."
A demolition permit was obtained last year
The foundation launched a campaign to try and save the Burroughs Wellcome building last year, after receiving a tip-off that a demolition permit was being sought.
United Therapeutics Corporation, which obtained the building in a land deal with GlaxoSmithKline, had or...
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