A building renowned as one of the ugliest eyesores in Newcastle has now been completely demolished.
Commercial Union House has been torn down as part of a massive transformation of Pilgrim Street, in the city centre, paving the way for a new £155m HMRC office complex to be built.
Contractors have been gradually removing the brutalist 1970s block since the northern end of the road was closed off last month, with the first step being to dismantle the infamously unattractive section of the building that jutted out over the street. But now the entirety of the former office building, which in more recent years was rented out by artists’ collective Orbis, has been reduced to rubble.
