1 DECEMBER 2007, Page 21

Razing the issue

Sir: Quinlan Terry (Letters, 24 November) answers Simon Thurley's plea for better architecture by pointing out, with reason, that steel and glass buildings designed to last only 40 years are less environmentally congenial than enduring brick and stone. He might have challenged Thurley on the fate of Thurley's own headquarters, the English Heritage building in Savile Row, formerly the Civil Service Commission, which has just been razed to the ground. It was a very good Art Deco building in stone. Why did English Heritage scrap it, and what will go up in its place?

Andrew Wilton London SW11