London’s Commonwealth Institute, one of the UK’s leading buildings, has been placed on a protected list of historic structures by the country’s culture secretary, over the protests of the Institute’s trustees, who wanted to sell the building to raise money for education programs. “The pre-stressed concrete building in Holland Park, west London, was designed by the British architect Sir Robert Matthew, and was given a Grade II listing by English Heritage within 30 years of being opened by the Queen in 1962.”