{"id":471369,"date":"2026-03-12T11:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T11:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/471369\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T11:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T11:34:07","slug":"bradfords-high-point-building-named-uks-brutalist-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/471369\/","title":{"rendered":"Bradford’s High Point building named UK’s brutalist best"},"content":{"rendered":"

The monolithic building was designed by the John Brunton Partnership and completed in 1972.<\/p>\n

Built at a time when IRA terrorist attacks were a constant threat, High Point was built to be bomb-proof.<\/p>\n

It became vacant in the 90s and was seen as an example of Bradford’s decline, the Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a> said.<\/p>\n

After standing empty for 25 years, it was renovated and is now fully occupied.<\/p>\n

Referring to High Point as the cream of the brutalist crop, the Telegraph said: “Looming over the Yorkshire ‘milltropolis’ of Bradford, this building looks completely out of place, like something from Blade Runner, and yet in a weird way it also blends in with the buttery Victorian edifices below built on wool money.”<\/p>\n

The newspaper said the building “came at a time when Yorkshire’s regional finance industry was thriving, but when that failed it too fell into disrepair”.<\/p>\n

It added: “Like its home city it is now on the up again \u2013 restored and reused, this time as flats. It’s a sage lesson in how to repurpose rather than demolish brutalist beasts.”<\/p>\n

Cunningham said: “High Point has attracted a lot of new fans in recent years, and it’s nice to see it enjoying a new lease of life as apartments.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The monolithic building was designed by the John Brunton Partnership and completed in 1972. Built at a time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-471369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}