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Metro Central Heights (originally known as Alexander Fleming House)
Location: London
Architecture: Erno Goldfinger
Completed: 1962
Another classic by Erno Goldfinger, Alexander Fleming House was originally built as offices for the Department of Health and Social Security, known as the Ministry of Health at the time. Despite receiving a Civic Trust Award in 1964, the building was not popular with its occupants and there were many suggestions that its design was was the cause of sick building syndrome, (where workers suffer illness and general malaise because of a building in which they live or work).
Saved from possible demolition, the complex was listed in 2013 and has since enjoyed a second life as Metro Central Heights, stylish apartments that reportedly make excellent use of Erno Goldfinger's late-modernist buildng.
