Rubble Club support group highlights 'unnecessarily' high level of demolition

Architects who see one of their buildings demolished in their own lifetime can now seek solace in a new online support group.

The Rubble Club has been set up to highlight the number of buildings being torn down, as it believes, unnecessarily.

Members so far include Reiach & Hall, who designed the Forth Road Bridge toll booths, and Steven Anderson, part of the design team behind the Chungwha factory in Lanarkshire, which was built for £10m in 1996 and pulled down within a decade.

To qualify for membership, architects must be alive and not party to the destruction of the building in question. The building must have been intended as a permanent structure and its destruction must have been deliberate.