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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 News

23 Jan 2016
Beorma Quarter Birmingham
Design: Trevor Horne Architects / Broadway Malyan Architects

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Proposals including Birmingham’s tallest office-led building have been unanimously approved by the city’s planners. Architect Broadway Malyan has designed the final phases of the £200 m Beorma Quarter development on behalf of property group Salhia Investments.

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Birmingham Buildings

Key West Midlands Buildings, alphabetical:

Alpha Tower
Dates built: 1969-73
Design: Richard Seifert & Partners

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100m high, subtle angles in plan
Design – architect H George Marsh
Other buildings by Richard Seifert & Partners include Centre Point tower in London

Baker Building, UCE
2000
Design: Stephen Hodder Architects
Baker Building Birmingham architect : Stephen Hodder

Barber Institute Concert Hall, The University of Birmingham
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Glenn Howells Architects

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Beetham Tower Birmingham, 10 Holloway Circus
2006
Ian Simpson Architects

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122-130m high / 39/40 storeys

Birchfield Library
2007-
Cottrell & Vermeulen Architects

Birmingham Cathedral : The Cathedral Church of Saint Philip, Colmore Row
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Church of England cathedral

Birmingham Central Library Building
1974
John Madin

The Birmingham Children’s Hospital Burns Unit
2007
RPS Planning & Development

Birmingham Hippodrome Theatre Redevelopment
2002
Associated Architects with LDN Architects
£18m

Birmingham Library Building
2008-
Mecanoo

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Birmingham Magistrates Court – proposal
2008-
Denton Corker Marshall

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Birmingham New Street Station
2008-
Design: Foreign Office Architects

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Refurb scheme by John McAslan Architects
Birmingham New Street refurbishment architect : John McAslan

Birmingham Repertory Theatre
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Keith Williams Architects

Birmingham Symphony Hall
1991
Design: Percy Thomas Partnership (PTP) and Renton Howard Wood Levin (RHWL)

photograph : Mike Gutteridge
RIBA Awards 1993 Regional Award : West Midlands

Birmingham Town Hall
1834
Architects: Joseph Hansom & Edward Welch

photograph : Adam Fradgley
Grade 1 Listed

Birmingham Treatment Centre
2006
Design: Sheppard Robson

Bournville Place – Cadburys Office Building
2009
Design: Stanton Williams

photo : Peter Cook

Brindleyplace
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Design: various architects

image © Glen Howells Architects

BT Tower, Lionel St
1965; refurb. 2003

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152m high
Link: BT Tower London

Bullring Birmingham
2003
Design: various architects

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Cincinnati development
2008-
Design: AHMM
For Urban Splash: hotel / offices

City Park Gate
2007-
Design: make architects
1 million sqft office / residential development + retail / hospitality facilities

Planning consent granted for the first phase of City Park Gate in Nov 2008.

Colmore Plaza – speculative office development
2008
Design: Aedas

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The Council House

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The Cube Birmingham
2010
Architects: Make

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Custard factory, Digbeth
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Design: Glen Howells Architects

Eastside – Birmingham, central England
2004
Design: Hamiltons Architects
for Eastside Partnership: 1.25 million sqft – planning

Edgbaston ground redevelopment – Warwickshire Cricket Club
2008-
Design: Broadway Malyan Architects

Focus Foyer building
1998
Design: Ian Simpson Architects

Fort Dunlop development : For Urban Splash
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shedkm

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Other Urban Splash property projects in Birmingham include The Rotunda redevelopment

19 George Road – headquarters building, Edgbaston
2007
3DReid

Holloway Circus Tower : see Beetham Tower higher up this page

Homeless hostel, adj. St Chad’s Cathedral
1997-98
Ian Simpson Architects
1993 Architecture competition winner

Joseph Chamberlain Clock Tower
1900
100m high

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University of Birmingham

Library of Birmingham, England – 5 Sep 2013
2013
Design: Mecanoo

photo : Christian Richters
Centenary Square, the largest public square in the heart of Birmingham, currently lacks cohesion or a clear identity or atmosphere. Mecanoo’s design transforms the square into one with three distinct realms: monumental, cultural and entertainment. These palazzos form an urban narrative of important periods in the history of the city; The Repertory Theatre (REP), a 1960s concrete building, the Library of Birmingham, designed in 2009 and Baskerville House, a listed sandstone building designed in 1936.

Longbridge Factory Project
2010-
Marks Barfield Architects

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Longbridge Town Centre
2009-
Holder Mathias Architects

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Millennium Point, Eastside
2002
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incl. Young People’s Parliament & Imax cinema

Nelson Mandela School : RIBA Award National overall winner 1989
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City of Birmingham Architect’s Department
RIBA Awards

Orion Building, Navigation St
2001-06
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90m high
residential building
apartments designed by John Rocha

Pentavia, Broad Street
2008
Aedas

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The Public Art Centre, West Bromwich, England
2008
Will Alsop

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Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Edgbaston
2004-12
Design: BDP Architects

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Residential tower, Snow Hill
2007-10
Glen Howells Architects
260m high / 43 storeys
For Ballymore Properties
£90m

The Rotunda, 150 New Street
1961-65
James Roberts
81m high / 23 storeys

The Rotunda Birmingham landmark conversion : 234 residential apartments for developers Urban Splash
2005-08
Glenn Howells Architects

photo © Nic Gaunt

Sea Life Centre
1996
Foster & Partners

Selfridges Birmingham : see also Bullring
2005
Future Systems Architects

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The Sentinels: Clydesdale Tower + Cleveland Tower, Holloway Head
1967-71
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90m high / 32 storeys
Fairly plane white-coloured square plan tower

St Philip’s Cathedral : see Birmingham Cathedral

2 Snow Hill Plaza
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For Ballymore Properties

Spiral Cafe Birmingham, St Martin’s Square, Bullring
2004
Marks Barfield Architects

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Teenage Cancer Trust, Birmingham Children’s Hospital
2010
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands

image © Chris Gascoigne

v Building – proposal, Suffolk Street Queensway, Arena Central
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Eric Kuhne
50 storeys

VTP200 – Vertiplex proposal
2007-
RTKL

More contemporary West Midlands architecture design projects online soon.

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

Architecture in West Midlands

Bournville College, Longbridge
2011
Design: Broadway Malyan

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Birmingham Building – possibly not to be built?
Birmingham Library
original proposal by Richard Rogers Partnership. In 2006 there was an architecture competition with Adjaye Associates, Glen Howells and make

Birmingham Museum Multi-sensory installation
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muf Architects

Coventry Buildings

Ansty Business Park – West Midlands Development
2008-
Allies and Morrison Architects

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