I can't believe that another of my favourite buildings in Leeds is being destroyed! (along with the international swimming pool). The H-blocks at Leeds Metropolitan University are about to meet their maker. Surely these functional concrete structures with a proper internal refit and new metal or wooden windows could stay, maintaining their honest geometric simplicity and no nonsense chic that has graced the student zone in the city for the last 40 or so years. This would also be far more eco friendly than wasting energy demolishing them and building some mediocre quasi-contemporary architecture in its place which will also meet the demolition squad in another 30 years. It would be nice to see more of this concrete architecture receiving the same holistic approach and regeneration that the industrial brick buildings of the 18th and 19th century have in recent years. The H-block buildings are currently used as the art department and convey a gritty urban edge that art needs, also referencing back to the days when Leeds was awash with political activism and the Leeds Metropolitan (then polytechnic) led the way for cutting edge performance art. At least Leeds University is still keeping some of its fantastic 60's and 70's gems (because it is so Sci-Fi it is rumoured to have been used to film episodes of Blake Seven).