Planned Birmingham tower block near Bullring slammed as 'abominable'

9 February 2009
By Jon Bounds

Slammed as in: “It’s abominable. It’s like a punch in the face by an architectural fist. It has no relation to place or location, it is out of scale with the buildings around it. It’s like something from Alice in Wonderland, a place where the normal rules don’t apply.”.

Personally I find it an uninteresting structure shoehorned into a place that needs more space, not more development — can't it go somewhere else? [link]

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