A little nepotism, a little self promotion here. Your beloved editor is one half the guides leading a walking tour of Birmingham’s underbelly soon. It’s part of the Still Walking festival, which we’re rather excited about. Ben Waddington has pulled…
Category: architecture
Central Library at 4am
The global media sensation the 4am Project was a perfect excuse for about 40 photographers to get access to our beautiful Central Library in the middle of the night. From the stacks in the basement to the very roof, we…
Speak Your Brains on New New St Design
“Network Rail is inviting people to have their say on plans to upgrade the Pallasades shopping centre and create a new John Lewis department store to the south side of Birmingham New Street station.” Something of the patio uplighter in…
Bartholomew Row Townhouses
From the Evening Mail: “Lighting firm Christopher Wray wants to pull down the buildings at 7-12 Bartholomew Row and has submitted a planning application. The owner claims that the row, near the new Matthew Boulton College and Millennium Point buildings…
Invisible Birmingham
Historian Ben Waddington is leading a Brum walking tour of sights and buildings inspired by his article ‘Invisible Architecture’ from Issue One of Dirty Bristow magazine. It’s based on the differences in what you see when you look up, rather…
Camp as a row of metal
While researching something else, here’s some stuff I found of Brum’s own scalextric Camp Hill Flyover: A photo by Phyllis Nicklin: And a bus-driver’s eye-view of a trip out of town on the 37. mmmm, short-term nostalgia.
King of Kong
A local, erm, enthusiast is campaigning for the King King statue late of the Bull Ring Markets (and some car place, and Dudley Zoo apparently) to be returned to tower over Brum. That’s despite him saying: “apparently poor old King…
Brutal Honesty
There’s nothing that worries me more than consultation (still no results btw) , apart from knocking down Birmingham’s most important building. So I was a bit disappointed with only “the main themes” being released from the consultation into what might…
Spit and Sauce, Us
Got a chance yesterday to pop into the mac (still a week or so before the opening, and work being done all over the building) and taste the catering. Yum. The building re-opens to the public on May 1st, with…