Demolished: Birmingham Central Library

Birmingham’s old Central Library, designed by John Madin, was demolished in 2015. Mary Keating, of campaign group Brutiful Birmingham, called its destruction an act of vandalism. ‘In its rush to develop new and glossy areas of the city, Birmingham should learn the lesson of the loss of the library and recognise the merits of the best buildings of the second half of the 20th century before this architectural period is entirely obliterated,’ she wrote