Nominated by: The Architectural Heritage Fund
Have C20 acted upon before? No
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber
Dates from: 1936
Built for: former Co-operative Emporium
Architect: Designed by WA Johnson of CWS for the City of Bradford Co-operative Society. The store was built in the International Modernist style and heavily influenced by the German architect Erich Mendelsohn, such as his design of the Sckoken store in Stuttgart (1928).
Listed: Grade II
Features of merit: The store was built in the International Modernist style and heavily influenced by the German architect Erich Mendelsohn, such as his design of the Sckoken store in Stuttgart (1928). This was an early and influential example of the open store principle, with lifts and stairs tucked around the edges of the shopping area and it also had the first escalators to be installed anywhere in a Co-op store. Its unaltered appearance, both externally and internally, is extremely rare.

Recieved £5,000 AHF grant January 2019 to reuse

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