Light Night, is being held as part of this year’s ArtsFest (which is fast approaching —12th to the 14th of September). While I struggle to see anything particularity arty about “architectural lighting of iconic city centre buildings and iconic landmarks”,…
Tag: civic buildings
Pool your thoughts
While the Council stall and on their reasons for wanting to close Moseley Road baths, locals – in the form of the Friends of Moseley Road Baths – have released their own proposals (PDF). According to The Stirrer, the Council…
What we thought of the past, in the past
Searching through the council website on an unrelated matter (and no I couldn’t get the www.birmingham.gov.uk/google search to find what I wanted either) I stumbled over a page of ‘Conservation Publications’ which includes this gem (from 1997) ‘Signalling the Sixties’.…
Architecture Week 2007 – stuff that surrounds you
Architecture Week 2007 starts tomorrow and lasts for just over a week, helpfully. There’s a huge amount going on – check out the catalogue on CiB. Personal highlights for me are Tunnel Vision – a trip down the tunnels underneath…
fighting on the beaches
Adrian Goldberg, out of The Stirrer, has done a piece for Radio 4’s You and Yours all about the fight betwixt the council and the bullring over the two (count ’em) fake beaches we’ll be getting in Brum this summer.…
sax, but no THE – Town Hall reopens
I’ve just come back from a launch for the opening festival of The Town Hall, sorry Town Hall (what have modern corporate advertising agencies got against the definite article? That’s going to a- be ignored and b – sound so…