Birmingham Architecture : Information + Images

Key / current buildings listed alphabetically: Alpha Tower 1969-73 Richard Seifert & Partners 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 Stephen Hodder Architects Baker Building Birmingham architect : Stephen Hodder Barber Institute Concert Hall, The University of Birmingham - Glenn Howells Architects Barber Institute Concert Hall Beetham Tower, 10 Holloway Circus 2006 Ian Simpson Architects photo © webbaviation 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 - - photo © webbaviation Church of England cathedral 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 Birmingham Library building Birmingham Magistrates’ Court – proposal 2008- Denton Corker Marshall Birmingham Magistrates Court Birmingham New Street Station 2008- Foreign Office Architects Birmingham station building refurb scheme by John McAslan Architects Birmingham New Street refurbishment architect : John McAslan Birmingham Repertory Theatre - Keith Williams Architects Birmingham Symphony Hall 1993 Percy Thomas Partnership RIBA Awards 1993 Regional Award : West Midlands Birmingham Town Hall Grade 1 Listed - Birmingham Treatment Centre 2006 Sheppard Robson Bournville Place - Cadburys Office Building 2009 Stanton Williams photo : Peter Cook Bournville Place Brindleyplace - various architects image © Glen Howells Architects Brindleyplace BT Tower, Lionel St 1965; refurb. 2003 152m high Link: BT Tower London Bullring 2003 various architects photo © webbaviation Bullring Birmingham Cincinatti development 2008- AHMM For Urban Splash: hotel / offices City Park Gate 2007- make 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 Aedas Colmore Plaza Custard factory, Digbeth - Glen Howells Architects Eastside - Birmingham, central England 2004 Hamiltons Architects for Eastside Partnership: 1.25 million sqft - planning Edgbaston ground redevelopment - Warwickshire Cricket Club 2008- Broadway Malyan Focus Foyer building 1998 Ian Simpson Architects Fort Dunlop redevelopment - 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 Homeless hostel, adj. St Chad’s Cathedral 1997-98 Ian Simpson Architects 1993 Architecture competition winner Joseph Chamberlain Clock Tower 1900 100m high University of Birmingham Longbridge Town Centre 2009- Holder Mathias Architects Longbridge Town Centre Millennium Point, Eastside 2002 - incl. Young People's Parliament & Imax cinema Nelson Mandela School - City of Birmingham Architect’s Department Birmingham School : RIBA Award National overall winner 1989 Orion Building, Navigation St 2001-06 - 90m high residential building apartments designed by John Rocha Pentavia, Broad Street 2008 Aedas Pentavia The Public, West Bromwich, England 2008 Will Alsop The Public Art Centre The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Edgbaston 2004-12 BDP Architects 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 photo © webbaviation Selfridges Birmingham The Sentinels: Clydesdale Tower + Cleveland Tower, Holloway Head 1967-71 - 90m high / 32 storeys Fairly plane white-coloured square plan tower St Philip's Cathedral : see Birmingham Cathedral 2 Snow Hill Plaza - - For Ballymore Properties Spiral Cafe, St Martin's Square, Bullring 2004 Marks Barfield Architects Spiral Cafe Birmingham v Building - proposal, Suffolk Street Queensway, Arena Central - Eric Kuhne 50 storeys Victoria Law Courts - - Grade 1 Listed VTP200 – Vertiplex proposal 2007- RTKL