Holding the Edge is an Artists Placement scheme run by MADE in association with the council. Four emerging Birmingham based artists have been working with MADE in Eastside during 2007 as part of an Artists Placement funded by Birmingham City Council’s Equal II: The Last Mile programme and Arts & Business. The outcomes of their … [Read more…]
According to The Stirrer plans were revealed by the Council for the new Central Library building this weekend. Costing £193 million it will sit next to and incorporate the REP theatre in Centenary Square creating a “a new centre for learning and culture.” (Hang on, isn’t that what Eastside’s supposed to be?) Along with a … [Read more…]
The closing party for the Festival of Xtreme Building takes place this Friday at 9pm on the FXB site. A pretty low key for everyone that has been involved to see the site looking very pretty at night lit up, listen to some music and have a beer. The Ale Installation by Pam Ginn will … [Read more…]
The Mud Hut at the Festival of Xtreme Building site was featured on Radio 4’s PM today (about 15 mins in to this clip). They’re building a sustainable house out of mud bricks over the next week and anyone can take part.
I’m posting this without comment because I’m kinda speechless. In a positive way though. VTP 200 site The Stirrer is very impressed. Stirrer forum thread. BiNS is mildly sarcastic. Nothing in the mainstream press yet. A scale model will be at Millennium Point from Saturday. Wow. Just wow.
Architect and Urban Designer Joe Holyoak has been uploading a load of articles onto his blog. Always good reading.
Concreation, the group who really like brutalist concrete architecture, are doing an art trail around the library over the Artsfest weekend. Here’s the original brief for the show.
A rather cryptic event from the Festival of Xtreme Building this Saturday: Pudelskern arrive in Birmingham City Centre saturday 11th August with their Space Programme Furniture suitable for all planet. The Austrian art collective promise to “bring some flowers from the Austrian alps to the Heart of England” along with “spaceship, performers, light installations, a … [Read more…]