Birmingham Building, England, Architects, Development, Tower, Property, Info

Key Buildings in the Midlands, UK

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Birmingham Architecture



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

Beetham Tower, 10 Holloway Circus
2006
Ian Simpson Architects
122-130m high / 39/40 storeys
also called Holloway Circus Tower
Residential - apartments
originally designed to be 44 floors high
£36m
Radisson SAS conference hotel on lowest 18 floors
Other Beetham Towers are appearing across England, incl. the tallest in Manchester - also by Ian Simpson Architects
Beetham Tower Birmingham architect - Ian Simpson

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-
Shortlist of 7 practices for new Birmingham Library:
Foreign Office Architects, Foster + Partners, Hopkins, Mecanoo, OMA, Schmidt Hammer Lassen, Wilkinson Eyre
Est. £193m
Birmingham building

Birmingham New Street Station

2008-
Birmingham station building
refurb scheme by John McAslan Architects
Birmingham New Street refurbishment architect : John McAslan

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

Brindleyplace

-
various architects
Brindleyplace

BT Tower, Lionel St
1965; refurb. 2003
152m high
Link: BT Tower London

Bullring Birmingham

Cincinatti development
2008-
AHMM
For Urban Splash: hotel / offices

City Park Gate

2007-
make
1million sqft office / residential development + retail/hospitality facilities

Costa ‘Seashell’ Café
, Bullring
-
Marks Barfield Architects

Custard factory, Digbeth
-
Glen Howells Architects

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

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

Magistrates’ court – proposal
2008-
Denton Corker Marshall
15 storeys

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

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
234 residential apartments for developers Urban Splash

Photo © Nic Gaunt
Birmingham landmark

Sea Life Centre
1996
Foster & Partners

Selfridges Birmingham
2005
Future Systems Architects

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

Victoria Law Courts

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Grade 1 Listed

VTP200 – Vertiplex proposal
2007-
RTKL



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

Coventry Buildings

Ansty Business Park
2008-
Allies and Morrison Architects

West Midlands Development

The Public, West Bromwich
2008
Alsop Architects

NORTH MIDLANDS:
Lichfield
Bird Street Gallery, Lichfield, Competition
1998
Stephen Hodder Architects

Other examples of Birmingham Architecture welcome



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