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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...

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Library 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...

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Planning 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...

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World’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...

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Swimmers 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...

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All 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...

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Another 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...

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The 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...

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The 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...

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Moseley 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...

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University 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...

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Coming 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...

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Birmingham 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...

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Residential 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...

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Short-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...

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No 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...

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A 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...

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Death 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...

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Living 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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