High Point, Bradford

High Point was built as the headquarters of the Yorkshire Building Society and completed in 1972. High Point was one of a trifecta of headquarters of building societies built in the brutalist style at the time of its construction in Northern England. The other two were the headquarters of the Halifax Building Society designed by the Building Design Partnership in Halifax and the head offices of Bradford & Bingley Building Society in Bingley designed by JBP. The building had become unused for several decades prior to the 2010s. An informal panel discussion on High Point in March 2018 included participants from the Bradford Civic Society, the Director of the Twentieth Century Society,…

High Point is a prominent example of Brutalist architecture. It is 8 storeys in height and is noted for its use of ribbed concrete. The Twentieth Century Society described the three buildings as representing in retrospect "the last-gasp of a sort of Heath-Wilsonian regional resurgence, at a time when "financial services" were not synonymous with the corporate casino-ism of the City of London, but a flourishing of century-old Victorian independent mutuals, and northern self-sufficiency".