Birmingham faces loss of another post-war building

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Source: Andy Foster

James Roberts’ Triplex House slated for demolition

Demolition notices have been posted on a significant 1960s building in Birmingham – the latest in a string of post-war buildings to bite the dust in the city, according to the Twentieth Century Society.

The society said it had been informed that demolition notices had appeared at Triplex House, a scheme designed by James A Roberts, architect of the iconic Birmingham Rotunda.

Roberts was a noted Birmingham architect active in the post-war period, producing three major schemes as part of Herbert Manzoni’s inner ring road development in Birmingham: the Ringway Centre, an unrealised proposal for the Bull Ring and the Rotunda, which is grade II listed.

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