y'cant stop progress!

As 'Bill the Battler' said in that well known factual Australian documentary 'Muriel's Wedding' -you can't stop progress... ;-) And looking today at Birmingham's much loved Rotunda building, that's certainly true. Anyone who's lived in the shadow of that building and come to identify with it, cannot fail to be very slightly emotionally distressed at its current state. It's quite bizarre that despite being grade 2 listed, you can still strip a building back to its concrete core...what does listing actually mean if you can remove the majority of its fabric, change its use, and give it a completely new identity? The Rotunda that will re-emerge a year or so from now will essentially be a completely new building. I hope the designers, Urban Splash, do not let us down...