The High Point building in Bradford, formerly known as the Yorkshire Building Society Building, was completed in 1972 and served as the headquarters of the Huddersfield and Bradford Building Society. The building stands tall in Bradford's predominantly Victorian city center. It has eight storeys and the façade design is characterized by the use of ribbed concrete and long, narrow windows. Inside the foyer, the building features a mural by William Mitchell depicting local landmarks such as the Town Hall, the Wool Exchange and the Alhambra in Bradford.

The building plays a role as a representative of a trilogy of northern building society headquarters built in the Brutalist style, including the High Point Building, the Halifax Building Society and the Bradford & Bingley Building Society, which was unfortunately demolished in 2015. 

After more than 25 years of vacancy and decay, the demolition of the building was repeatedly under discussion, but fortunately this was resolved with a renovation and change of use from 2021 to 2024, in which the original brutalist design was largely preserved. 

The renovation was preceded in 2018 by a panel discussion entitled “Save High Point / Raze High Point”, in which architectural historian Dr. George Sheeran moderated and featured Guardian journalist (and former C20 chairman) Sir Simon Jenkins, Catherine Croft, director of the C20 Society, Vijay Taheem, Bradford architect and lecturer at the University of Huddersfield's School of Art Design and Architecture, and Bradford-based architect Jordi Campo Bria. At the end of the debate, the audience clearly voted to 'save' High Point and the non-binding discussion ended with the resolution to find a new use for the building.

A new use and renovation of the building was then actually implemented by locally based developer Radii and architects Beckwith Design Associates Ltd, who published initial plans for this in 2020. Then, they converted the former office building into a residential building with 87 one and two-bedroom apartments with a gym, coffee bar for residents and communal lounge and work areas on the ground floor. The ribbed concrete façade was largely retained and cleaned, with the horizontal and vertical window strips being reglazed throughout. The largest structural intervention was the alteration of the smaller podium building in front: Here, the concrete façade was replaced with curtain wall glazing. The total cost of the project was 11 million pounds. 

The transformation of High Point is seen as a positive example of the sustainable revival of Brutalist architecture in the UK (last updated on December 27, 2024).