A new festival makes it debut this year, celebrating the second city’s structures, with everything from the heights of the skylines to the hidden corners. The Birmingham Architecture Festival will be running from the 24th to 27th of May, with the theme ‘Take a Second Look’. This independent festival will span across the city and … [Read more…]
Thursday 14th March saw the long awaited launch night of Thrift Radiates Happiness at the Municipal Bank in Birmingham. We first talked about this back in January but now it is here I wanted to give you a sneak peek of what’s going on inside in the hope that you pay a visit and ‘invest’. It’s … [Read more…]
A very happy new year to CiB readers. As I begin my first full year living in this city I am coming to the end of the first batch of Welcome to Birmingham venues that I have researched since my move. It’s taken a while to get through them due to a rather hectic last … [Read more…]
I thought about making a Welcome to Birmingham post dedicated to this, and maybe one day I will. Last week Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery opened up their newly refurbished galleries dedicated to 500 years of Birmingham history. Visitors can explore the city’s global heritage from medieval times and the industrial revolution, through to the … [Read more…]
A week after I have packed my life away into boxes, only to reopen them a day later and slowly scatter them across my new home, I am on my way to The Public in West Bromwich to do some research for my first article in this series I am calling ‘Welcome to Birmingham’. This … [Read more…]
Telling Storeys is a collection of (average quality) photographs celebrating the architecture of Birmingham, UK, and occasionally further afield. Where possible, more information about that building or place is provided below the photograph. Information is mostly sourced from the Pevsner Architectural Guide to Birmingham by Andy Foster, along with other architectural reference books. A little extra local … [Read more…]
Pete’s photos from Ben Waddington’s Written in Concrete tour as part of the Still Walking festival last weekend. Onna map.
BAApp: Walking Architecture is a searchable archive of buildings and tours from across Birmingham including historic, contemporary or conceptual architecture. It’s an iPhone app built by Substrakt for the Birmingham Architectural Association in collaboration with RIBA West Midlands and the Birmingham & Five Counties Architectural Association. It should arrive in the iTunes store any day now. If you … [Read more…]