Cliff Richards is no doubt upset, as the “Cliff Richards’s Millennium Flame” has been pulled down so they can build the underground library in Centenary Square. Photo by davidsesa
Tag: architecture
Q Club to become luxury apartments?
Birmingham Central has news of a planning application/discussion about turning the Central Methodist Hall into apartments. They're are plans to add another storey, which wouldn't be nice architecturally. What's more this is the Q club. [link]
What should go on top of the Rotunda?
The Rotunda was very well refurbished and looks great (apart from the flats where the tennants decide that behind their curtain is the best place to hide stuff – it’s a window people, we can see your washing). But the…
Friday Photo by Karen Strunks
The hall of memory is a building I have walked past many times and never ventured in until recently. From Birmingham City Council’s website: Birmingham’s Hall of Memory was erected in the 1920s (before Baskerville House, in front…
New Library work starts
(Photo by Andy Mabbett) No remarks about how the fencing is eerily reminiscent of the design.
More Big City Planned
From the Big City Plan consultation document (still no results of that consultation, by the way): “Birmingham could create a new way of building smart neighbourhoods. The ‘Birmingham House’ idea should reflect the needs of modern living but builds on…
New pictures of glass cat penis
Digbeth is Good haunts Property Week in order to find the latest artist pictures of the vile spiky building planned to block views of Selfridges and create more congestion around the Cold Storage building.
Friday Photo by Karen Strunks
Where you do you get your old fashioned sweet fix these days? I have just the place for you! On the corner of Inge Street and Hurst Street you will find a wonderful Olde Shoppe to cater for your hard…
Join Cllr Nev at the Jewellery Quarter's 19th Century Key Hill Cemetery
To celebrate the completion of work to restore the gatehouse, Nev will be posing with people dressed as ghosts. A photo opportunity if ever I saw one. [link]