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Birmingham Architecture : Buildings
Key Property Developments in the West Midlands, central England, UK
post updated 3 November 2024
Birmingham Architecture Designs : links
We’ve selected what we feel are the key examples of Birmingham Architecture. We aim to include design-led interesting West Midlands buildings.
We cover completed Birmingham buildings, new building designs and architectural exhibitions. We also post architecture competitions across the West Midlands. The focus is on contemporary Midlands buildings but information on traditional architecture is also welcome.
Birmingham Architecture
Birmingham Architecture Walking Tours
photograph © Make / Zander Olsen
Birmingham Architecture Walking Tours
The city is located in the West Midlands, central England. The city is famous for historic architecture such as Birmingham Library, The Cube, The Rotunda Conversion, Brindleyplace Buildings, New Street Gateway Project, Selfridges Birmingham and the Beetham Tower – 10 Holloway Circus.
Famous architects with buildings in the city include Future Systems Architects, Foreign Office Architects, Mecanoo, Ian Simpson Architects.
Birmingham Architecture Designs
Birmingham Architectural Designs – latest West Midlands proeprty developments additions to this page, arranged chronologically:
7 Feb 2023
£24m Birmingham student development, Stirchley community, Selly Park South
Design: Glenn Howells Architects
image courtesy of Alumno Group
Dogpool Lane Birmingham development
26 Jan 2023
Smithfield Birmingham Redevelopent
Masterplanners: Prior+Partners
Design: David Kohn Architects ; dRMM ; Intervention Architecture ; Haworth Tompkins Architects ; Minesh Patel Architects ; RCKa
Festival Square designed: James Corner Field Operations
image courtesy of architects practice
Smithfield Birmingham transformation
11 Jul 2013
Dudley Evolve
Design: Metz Architects
photo : Chris Hodson
Dudley Evolve
Dudley College’s aspiration for a bold contemporary building which respects its historic town centre context is realised with completion of Dudley Evolve, characterised by horizontal copper panels from Aurubis Architectural.
18 Jun 2013
Bramall Music Building, University of Birmingham
Design: Glenn Howells Architects
photograph © Paul Miller
Bramall Music Building
18 Jun 2013
Eastside City Park
Design: Patel Taylor
photograph © Patel Taylor
Eastside City Park
17 Jun 2013
St Alban’s Academy, Birmingham
photograph © Edward Shaw
St Alban’s Academy –
The simple top-lit form has a bi-axial plan, with two interconnected buildings joined by a covered link. Visual and physical connections offer intuitive separation between specialisms and autonomous small-schools. Interiors are spacious, bright and calm, defined by natural materials.
Millennium Point Architecture Competition
Birmingham Architecture Competition – design contest launched in 2012
with winner to be announced in 2013
20 Apr 2012
Grand Hotel Redevelopment
Berman Guedes Stretton
image from architects
Grand Hotel Birmingham
After 11 years of dereliction the council and locals feared for the future of this landmark hotel until, in 2010, Hortons’ Estates commissioned Berman Guedes Stretton to design a scheme that would rescue the hotel and restore it to its former glory. The scheme, strongly supported by English Heritage, has sailed through the planning process.
Teenage Cancer Trust, BCH
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands
image © Chris Gascoigne
Teenage Cancer Trust Birmingham
RIBA Award winner, 2011
This is a single storey lightweight structure perched over A& E and the fracture clinic. It is situated in a busy and chaotic part of the town, cut off by roads and surrounded by hospital buildings with different dates, styles and looks all embracing one other.
The Cube
Architects: Make
photograph © Make / Zander Olsen
The Cube Birmingham
This building is a new landmark destination building in a rapidly regenerating district of central Birmingham. It marks a key moment in Birmingham’s development: the first of a new phase of visionary buildings which will build on the work of Future System’s Selfridges building and pave the way for Mecanoo’s Library of Birmingham and Foreign Office Architects’ New Street station.
Zero Carbon House
Architect: John Christophers
photo © Martine Hamilton Knight
Zero Carbon House
This is not for the architecturally faint-hearted. John Christophers has transformed an existing end of terrace house into a ground-breaking carbon-neutral family home of rare quality using low energy materials and environmental systems. It is thought to be the UK’s first retrofit to achieve level 6 of the Code for Sustainable Homes – seven years ahead of the government’s target date
The project involved the conversion and extension of a two bedroom redbrick semi-detached Victorian house into a four bedroom dwelling with a studio loft.
Birmingham Buildings : alphabetical list
Buildings in Birmingham
Key West Midlands Buildings, alphabetical:
Alpha Tower
Richard Seifert & Partners
photo © webbaviation
100m high, building from 1970
Beetham Tower, 10 Holloway Circus
Ian Simpson Architects
photo © webbaviation
Beetham Tower
Beorma Quarter, Digbeth
Trevor Horne Architects
picture from architect
Beorma Quarter Building
Birmingham Library : Architecture Contest
Mecanoo
picture from architect
Birmingham Library building
Birmingham Magistrates’ Court – proposal
Denton Corker Marshall
image from DCM
Birmingham Magistrates Court
Bournville College, Longbridge
Design: Broadway Malyan
image from CM
Bournville College Building
Bournville Place – Cadburys Office
Stanton Williams
photo : Peter Cook
Bournville Place Building
Brindleyplace Buildings
Glen Howells Architects
image © Glen Howells Architects
Brindleyplace Birmingham building
BT Tower, Lionel St
1965; refurb. 2003
photo © webbaviation
152m high buildingBullring Buildings
Design: various architects
photo © webbaviation
Bullring Birmingham
Fort Dunlop redevelopment
shedkm
photo : Urban Splash
Fort Dunlop development for Urban Splash
Joseph Chamberlain Sixth Form College
BDP
photo from CABE
Joseph Chamberlain Sixth Form College
New Street Gateway Project
Design: Foreign Office Architects
image from architects
Birmingham New Street Building
Pentavia Building, Broad Street
Aedas
picture from architect
Pentavia
The Public, West Bromwich
Alsop & Partners; Atkins Architects
photograph : Roderick Coyne
The Public Building
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Edgbaston
BDP Architects
picture © webbaviation
Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham
The Rotunda Conversion
Glenn Howells Architects
photograph © Nic Gaunt
The Rotunda : 234 residential apartments
Selfridges Birmingham
Future Systems Architects
photo © webbaviation
Selfridges Birmingham
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Location: Birmingham, West Midlands, central England, UK
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Birmingham Architecture – no links, © webbaviation
The Rotunda, 150 New Street
James Roberts
81m high (see link at top of this page)
Joseph Chamberlain Clock Tower
1900
100m high, University of Birmingham
Millennium Point, Eastside
2002
St Philip’s Cathedral Building
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Victoria Law Courts – Grade 1 Buildings
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Bullring Bull
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Birmingham Development Proposal
New Street Station Redevelopment
John McAslan Architects ; previously Will Alsop
photo © webbaviation
Selfridges Birmingham architect : Future Systems
Comments / photos for the Birmingham Building Developments page welcome.