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Citrus-Fruit
Feb 27, 2006, 4:32 PM
Birmingham, the UK's second city.


http://tinypic.com/imm36f.jpg

LINK TO FULL LIST OF DEVELOPMENTS

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=294878

Towers 90m+
Blue = Approved
Red = Proposed
Black = Built
Green = U/C

1. Arena Central - 187m (245m)
2. The Pinnacle - 175m
3. BT Tower - 152m
4. Tramps Tower - 137m (142m)
5. Holloway Circus Tower - 122m (130m)
6. Martineau Galleries - 110m
7. Alpha Tower - 100m
8. Chamberlain Clock Tower - 100m
9. Orion - 92m
10. City Park Gate - 90m (100m)
11. Senitnel 1 - 90m
12. Sentinel 2 - 90m
13. Park Central Tower - 90m

Citrus-Fruit
Mar 3, 2006, 6:10 PM
Birmingham, United Kingdom

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u276/72bluebus/brum08-07.jpg

Population: 990,000
Tallest Building: Holloway Circus Tower - 122m
Famous Sons/Daughters: Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne, Cat Deeley, JRR Tolkien, Neville Chamberlain.
Claims To fame: Cadburys, Lord of the Rings, Heavy Metal

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3076/2829557495_0cd47027c6_o.jpg


Towers:

VTP - 200m (Proposed)
Regal - 180m (Pre-Planning)
Natwest Tower - 163m (Approved)
BT Tower - 152m (Built)
V Tower - 152m (Approved - Enabling)
SnowHill - 138m (U/C - Delayed)
BST - 133m (Approved)
New Street 1 - 130m (Approved)
New Street 2 - 130m (Approved)
Holloway Circus Tower -122m (Built)
Snowhill Plaza - 118m (Approved)
Martineau Galleries - 110m (Pre-Planning)
Masshouse - 104m (Pre-Planning)
Alpha Tower - 100m. (Built)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3194/2931559221_84cfbf8852_b.jpg

Citrus-Fruit
Mar 25, 2006, 11:32 PM
City's skyscraper theme park plan

A £60m skyscraper with theme park rides and a restaurant at the top could be built in Birmingham.

The 175m (574ft) Birmingham Pinnacle will be built next to Millennium Point, if the city council approves the plans.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41481000/jpg/_41481000_pinnacle.jpg

Rides include a high level seesaw, a freefall parachute drop, a bungee drop and a 50-passenger gyro ride.

The building would be the Midlands' tallest, the first of its kind in Europe and would resemble the Stratosphere tower in Las Vegas.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/4840984.stm

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Citrus-Fruit
Apr 23, 2006, 12:05 PM
Ill Post more when they happen, but the full list including alot more renders of projects in the city, check out the link at the top of the page. Thanks.

Citrus-Fruit
Sep 1, 2006, 1:46 PM
2 more 130m (427ft) towers have been proposed at New Street Station

Citrus-Fruit
Sep 1, 2006, 1:58 PM
132m Broad Street redesign. Work to start Winter 2006.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42006000/jpg/_42006450_broadstview203l.jpg

Citrus-Fruit
Oct 13, 2008, 10:48 AM
This needs a big recap.

The tallest regional tower outside London may be in Birmingham aswell with a major mixed-use scheme down Broad Street. Technically it already is in the VTP but most of that is theme-park.

http://www.vtp200.com/overview.php

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1311/1031783397_0098387082_o.jpg

Top Of The Park
Oct 14, 2008, 4:16 PM
It looks similar to Oklahoma City

Citrus-Fruit
Oct 17, 2008, 8:53 AM
A little. Oklahoma's skyline though is alot more compact which I prefer. It'll take Birmingham a little while to achieve that as the city is quite spread out. The skyline stretched almost 2 miles which is pretty huge considering. The city does have over a dozen planned 100m+ towers but unfortunately due to the credit crunch our new tallest has seized construction for the time being. Podium has been done and the lobby has been completed but now they have switched thier battention to the 2nd 75m tall Office block instead of the twin residential, hotel tower scheme.

http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/7137/brum1ll3.png

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/183/362868655_70ee2c2ea5_b.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/61/214490099_76885e4acf_o.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/198/465411816_9ae001033c_b.jpg

birminghampcman
Apr 4, 2011, 12:42 AM
While new buildings may be going up, Here is a picture of one coming down, I can confirm that Bayley Tower on the Bromfod Drive in Birmingham, UK is now a pile of rubble.

It wont be long now before Stoneycroft Tower on the Bromford Drive in Birmingham, UK suffers the same fate.

http://www.a2bav.co.uk/bayley.jpg

hotwheels
Sep 6, 2016, 8:41 PM
New Birmingham Conservatoire Taking Shape
(http://skyrisecities.com/news/2016/08/new-birmingham-conservatoire-taking-shape)
Shuttered earlier this year, Birmingham Conservatoire's Adrian Boult Hall staged a wide variety of musical performances over its 30-year history. The closure of the Birmingham City University facility marks the end of one chapter and the beginning of another. A brand new £56 million venue is taking shape in the Eastside, representing the United Kingdom's first completely new Conservatoire since 1987.

ToTheTopNow
Feb 17, 2017, 7:41 PM
Three Snowhill an Integral Part of Birmingham's "Big City Plan"

http://skyrisecities.com/news/2017/02/three-snowhill-integral-part-birminghams-big-city-plan