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,…