Awards for Birmingham buildings
RIBA National Architecture awards for “exceptional” design. Library of Birmingham – The Birmingham Press Two Birmingham buildings have been given a 2014 RIBA National Award by the Royal Institute of...
View ArticleLibrary still on Death Row
In the first of two articles, Alan Clawley reveals details of a meeting with the Paradise Circus developers. My half-hour meeting with Argent boss Rob Groves last week about Paradise Circus left me...
View ArticlePlanning application lodged for iCentrum
New development will be central Birmingham’s first speculative office building in four years. A planning application has been submitted for the expansion of the Innovation Birmingham Campus. Funding is...
View ArticleWorld’s largest archaeology festival comes to the Midlands
Learn all about it. Lovers of history have the chance to get their hands dirty during the summer when the 24th annual Festival of Archaeology, the largest celebration of its kind in the world, takes...
View ArticleSwimmers wanted to take part in city photo-event
Endangered building to be captured on film. 100 swimmers from across Birmingham are being invited to take part in a one-off photo event on Sunday 20 July, aimed at highlighting the plight of one of the...
View ArticleAll change at Five Ways
Alan Clawley describes the ongoing development of one of the city’s busiest junctions. Once touted as the premier office location outside the congested city centre, Five Ways is being transformed as an...
View ArticleAnother piece of the jigsaw
Alan Clawley updates us on the plans for Paradise Circus. The drip-feed of information on Paradise Circus continues with the news that London architect Eric Parry has won the competition to design the...
View ArticleThe glittering prize
With the Library of Birmingham in line for a major award, Alan Clawley argues that neither prize nor potential recipient are worthy of acclaim. Birmingham’s library supremo, Brian Gambles, had a brief...
View ArticleThe architecture of austerity
Alan Clawley ponders on local government double standards. We are constantly being told by the government that we live in an era of austerity, yet when I see public and private money being spent on the...
View ArticleMoseley Road Baths welcomes Hale family
Architect’s descendants to visit listed landmark. In the week that the Grade II* Moseley Road Baths in Balsall Heath celebrates its 107th birthday, around twenty descendents of the building’s...
View ArticleUniversity date for Ironbridge lecture
Heritage chief to speak on values. The prestigious Ironbridge Annual Lecture will be hosted by the University of Birmingham on Thursday, 13th November at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts. Held in...
View ArticleComing home to roost
The Library of Birmingham may be attracting both praise and visitors but Alan Clawley remains unconvinced. As a chronicler of the Central Library saga I can look back on the conception and birth of its...
View ArticleBirmingham company lands £3 million-plus capital project work
City firm to be part of major social housing renovation. Birmingham building services provider JS Wright is to power up two major community regeneration schemes that are being developed by Rydon at a...
View ArticleResidential development for Birmingham
Council plans for more than 2,000 new homes. Plans for Birmingham City Council’s house-building arm to build over 2,000 new houses in the next five years are to go before cabinet. The Birmingham...
View ArticleShort-lived ‘retirement’ for construction trouble-shooter
Because there’s no substitute for experience and ability. A jazz band tribute was held with colleagues and friends to mark the retirement of one of the West Midlands’ leading construction sector...
View ArticleNo stopping the vandals
News of the Central Library’s impending demolition causes Alan Clawley to reflect. It was always going to be an uphill battle to save the Central Library in a city whose leaders have long destroyed its...
View ArticleA letter to the developer
Alan Clawley writes to Rob Groves, the man responsible for overseeing the Paradise Forum development. Dear Rob, For the second time in half a century Birmingham has set out to comprehensively develop...
View ArticleDeath notice
Alan Clawley issues an invitation. We are sorry to announce the premature death of Birmingham Central Library at the early age of 41. Created by John Madin and his colleagues, it began life as Europe’s...
View ArticleLiving in history
Two upcoming events aimed at historians. The Victorian Society, Birmingham and West Midlands Group are holding two events aimed at anyone who wishes to learn more about this period of the region’s...
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