Fife Council has confirmed the prominent listed public artwork created by Malcolm Robertson in 1978 will remain in its current location following the demolition.
A prominent landmark at Fife Council’s headquarters in Glenrothes will soon be erased from the town’s skyline for good.
Demolition experts are dismantling the five storey Kingdom House office block in Kingdom Avenue after a lockdown-enforced delay.
The building, which housed the council’s planning department for decades, was vacated in 2019 after renovation was deemed too expensive.
A spokesperson for Fife Council said demolition work is expected to be complete by the end of November.
“In the short term the plan is to form a car park with associated landscaping and there will also be some minor improvements to Kingdom Avenue.
“Marketing of the site will also start as part of a broader strategy to support regeneration of the town centre.”
Concerns had been raised demolition would include the removal of town artist Malcolm Robertson’s celebrated ‘Birds’ sculpture, which was awarded listed monument status by Scottish National Heritage in 2011.
However, the local authority confirmed the striking large public artwork, one of more than 150 public artworks created during the former New Town’s development, is to remain in its original location at the gable end of Kingdom House.
