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Birmingham Architecture : Buildings

Key property developments in the West Midlands, UK. Central England built environment & properties images updates.

post updated 7 January 2026

We choose 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.

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Birmingham Architecture Designs

Birmingham Architectural Designs – latest West Midlands property developments additions to this page, arranged chronologically:

2 May 2025
One Centenary Way Birmingham Office Building
Design: Howells Architects

photograph © Hufton + Crow

12 February 2025
Snow Hill Wharf Property Development, Gun Quarter
Design: GRID Architects

photo © Jack Hobhouse

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Birmingham Architectural Designs in 2023

7 Feb 2023
Dogpool Lane Birmingham development, Stirchley community, Selly Park South
Design: Glenn Howells Architects

image courtesy of Alumno Group

26 Jan 2023
Smithfield Birmingham transformation
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

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West Midlands Property Developments in 2013

11 Jul 2013
Dudley Evolve
Design: Metz Architects

photo : Chris Hodson
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

18 Jun 2013
Eastside City Park
Design: Patel Taylor

photograph © Patel Taylor

17 Jun 2013
St Alban’s Academy

photograph © Edward Shaw
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

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West Midlands Property Designs in 2011 to 2012

20 Apr 2012
Grand Hotel Birmingham Property Redevelopment News
Berman Guedes Stretton

image from architects
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.

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19 May 2011
Teenage Cancer Trust Birmingham, BCH – RIBA Award winner, 2011
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands

image © Chris Gascoigne
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.

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19 Aug 2010
The Cube Birmingham
Architects: Make

photograph © Make / Zander Olsen
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.

20 May 2010
Zero Carbon House
Architect: John Christophers

photo © Martine Hamilton Knight
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.

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Birmingham Buildings : alphabetical list

Birmingham Office Buildings

Birmingham Architects

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
Date built: 1965; refurbishment 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

More Birmingham Architecture projects online soon

Birmingham Architect : Office Listings

Location: Birmingham, West Midlands, central England, UK.

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West Midlands Architecture

Coventry Buildings

Northampton Buildings

Nottingham Buildings

Walsall Buildings

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Birmingham Architecture Photos

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

Selfridges Birmingham architect : Future Systems

Comments / photos for the Birmingham Building Developments page welcome.

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