Forth Bridge Toll Canopy
Reiach and Hall's award-winning Forth Road Bridge Toll Canopy has been named in the first annual awards by The Rubble Club.
The Rubble Club is open to architects who have had a building destroyed in their lifetime. There are three key ground rules for membership: firstly the building’s architect must be alive and not party to its destruction, secondly the building must be built with the intention of permanence (exhibitions, shops and interiors are not eligible), and thirdly it must be deliberately destroyed or radically altered; it can’t simply burn down.
The Rubble Club calls for renovation over demolition. It aims to draw attention to the number of buildings it believes are being torn down unnecessarily, and also to the growing practice of demolishing buildings rather than finding ways of breathing new life into them.
The Rubble Club chose our Forth Road Bridge Toll Canopy as they felt its demolition underlined the waste The Rubble Club aims to highlight. When the SNP Government abolished bridge tolls in Scotland in 2007, the canopy was flattened just months after completion.
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