Why architects resign
Alan Clawley on the latest controversy to hit the New Street station redevelopment.
City architecture wins praise
Shortlist announced for RIBA West Midlands Awards.
Showing off in Cannes
Alan Clawley wonders whether Birmingham city council’s time in the south of France might be better spent elsewhere.
The library as film studio
Alan Clawley puts forward a novel idea.
Birmingham bling
Alan Clawley on the city centre’s attention-grabbing architecture.
Drifting Towards Macau and Other Dreams
Everyone has a Nowhere to get to. For RICHARD LUTZ, it is Macao
Madin house listed
Alan Clawley has news for admirers of controversial architect John Madin.
Changing fortunes
The financing of Birmingham’s regeneration isn’t exactly going to plan, argues Alan Clawley.
Old and new?
Alan Clawley talks about new architecture in an old way.
Friends of the Central Library – a manifesto for 2013
The group have called on Birmingham city council to offer the building to potential new users.
Brutal or brutalist?
Alan Clawley on recent developments in the listed building world.
Another tale of two cities
Dave Woodhall makes an obvious, and unflattering, comparison.
Re-opening time
It’s not all bad news for publicans. Dave Woodhall visits the revitalised Woodman.
Fast forward
Alan Clawley talks about city planning, and the lack thereof.
Major expansion for thestudio
City centre venue set for size increase.
Open for viewing
Alan Clawley describes his visit to the newly-opened Library of Birmingham.
Teme Spirit
RICHARD LUTZ wanders through a bit of this sceptered isle in Worcestershire
To absent friends
Alan Clawley ponders on those who were, and weren’t, present at the opening of the Library of Birmingham.
Adopted Brummie opens new library
A large crowd greeting education activist Malala Yousafzai this morning as she officially opened the Library of Birmingham.
Six years late and way over budget
Mike Whitby and Sir Albert Bore will be absent from today’s official opening, but as the media and Birmingham’s great and good fawn over the city’s new main library, Steve Beauchampé offers some facts (and opinions) that may not receive much of an airing elsewhere today.
Something unique this way comes
Dave Woodhall’s view of the new Library of Birmingham.
West Midlands: The next ‘Grand Designs’ hotspot?
The head of a boutique architects practice reckons that the West Midlands is well on its way to becoming the next big ‘Grand Designs’ hotspot.
Rare freehold houses to be launched in Birmingham this weekend
Crest Nicholson will launch the first freehold new build houses to have been built in Birmingham city centre for more than two years
The degeneration of Paradise Circus
Alan Clawley highlights the strange machinations that have blighted parts of Birmingham city centre.
The Old Joint Stock’s 150th Birthday
Have you ever looked around this wonderful building? Time to do so.
The keys to the coffin works handed over
After more than 10 years of fundraising and development, Birmingham Conservation Trust has announced that work is starting on the city’s newest heritage attraction.
Paradise Circus regeneration a scam?
Alan Clawley takes issue over the designation of an area labelled in need of ‘regeneration’.
Top marks for Crest Nicholson at Park Central, Birmingham
The construction team at Crest Nicholson’s Park Central development in Birmingham city centre has been commended in two NHBC (National House-Building Council) Awards.
Aston Uni gets set for bio-energy switch-on
Redhall Jex is nearing completion of a nine month contract to build a bio-energy plant located within a new facility on the Aston University site in Birmingham.
John Madin’s other library
Alan Clawley with a reminder that when the architects in John Madin’s office were working up plans for a new central library for Birmingham, they were also designing one for Redditch.