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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 Development
Design: Trevor Horne Architects / Broadway Malyan Architects
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Beorma Quarter Birmingham
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.
Birmingham Buildings
Key West Midlands Buildings, alphabetical:
Alpha Tower
Dates built: 1969-73
Design: Richard Seifert & Partners
photo © webbaviation
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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Barber Institute Concert Hall
Beetham Tower, 10 Holloway Circus
2006
Ian Simpson Architects
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122-130m high / 39/40 storeys
Beetham Tower Birmingham
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
1974
John Madin
Birmingham Central Library
The Birmingham Children’s Hospital Burns Unit
2007
RPS Planning & Development
Birmingham Hippodrome Theatre Redevelopment
2002
Associated Architects with LDN Architects
£18m
Birmingham Library
2008-
Mecanoo
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Birmingham Library building
Birmingham Magistrates’ Court – proposal
2008-
Denton Corker Marshall
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Birmingham Magistrates Court
Birmingham New Street Station
2008-
Design: Foreign Office Architects
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Birmingham station building
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
Bournville Place
Brindleyplace
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Design: various architects
image © Glen Howells Architects
Brindleyplace
BT Tower, Lionel St
1965; refurb. 2003
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152m high
Link: BT Tower London
Bullring
2003
Design: various architects
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Bullring Birmingham
Cincinnati development
2008-
Design: AHMM
For Urban Splash: hotel / offices
City Park Gate
2007-
Design: make architects
1million 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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Colmore Plaza
The Council House
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The Cube
2010
Architects: Make
photograph © Make / Zander Olsen
The Cube Birmingham
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 redevelopment
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shedkm
photo : Urban Splash
Fort Dunlop development : For Urban Splash
Other Urban Splash 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
2013
Design: Mecanoo
photo : Christian Richters
Library of Birmingham, England – 5 Sep 2013
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 Factory Project
Longbridge Town Centre
2009-
Holder Mathias Architects
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Longbridge Town Centre
Millennium Point, Eastside
2002
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incl. Young People’s Parliament & Imax cinema
Nelson Mandela School
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City of Birmingham Architect’s Department
Birmingham School : RIBA Award National overall winner 1989
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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Pentavia
The Public, West Bromwich, England
2008
Will Alsop
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The Public Art Centre
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Edgbaston
2004-12
Design: BDP Architects
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Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham
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 Conversion
2005-08
Glenn Howells Architects
photo © Nic Gaunt
Birmingham landmark : 234 residential apartments for developers Urban Splash
Sea Life Centre
1996
Foster & Partners
Selfridges Birmingham : see also Bullring
2005
Future Systems Architects
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Selfridges Birmingham
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, St Martin’s Square, Bullring
2004
Marks Barfield Architects
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Spiral Cafe Birmingham
Teenage Cancer Trust, Birmingham Children’s Hospital
2010
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands
image © Chris Gascoigne
Teenage Cancer Trust
v Building – proposal, Suffolk Street Queensway, Arena Central
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Eric Kuhne
50 storeys
Victoria Law Courts
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Grade 1 Listed
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VTP200 – Vertiplex proposal
2007-
RTKL
Zero Carbon House
2010
Architect: John Christophers
photo © Martine Hamilton Knight
Zero Carbon House
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Location: Birmingham, West Midlands, central England, UK
Architecture in West Midlands
Birmingham Architecture Designs – chronological list
Bournville College, Longbridge
2011
Design: Broadway Malyan
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Bournville College
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
Ansty Business Park – West Midlands Development
2008-
Allies and Morrison Architects
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Ansty Business Park
NORTH MIDLANDS:
Lichfield
Bird Street Gallery, Lichfield, Competition
1998
Stephen Hodder Architects
Other examples of Birmingham Architecture welcome
West Midlands Building Designs
Contemporary West Midlands Buildings – recent architectural selection on e-architect below:
Birmingham Architecture Competition : Bentley Library
Selfridges Birmingham architects : Future Systems
Birmingham Library Competition
City Park Gate Birmingham architects : make
Architecture Design
Contemporary Building Designs – recent architectural selection from e-architect below:
Buildings / photos for the Birmingham Architecture page welcome
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