 The citation lauded the MBW for showing 'how jobbery may be elevated to the level of the fine arts'.The MBW's headquarters were taken over by the London County Council as its headquarters until County Hall was built and occupied in 1922; the building was then renamed 'Old County Hall' and continued as a subsidiary office for the LCC until the original hundred-year lease on the site expired in 1958.It was subsequently used for central government offices and demolished in 1971 to make way for a new headquarters for the British Council.