Coventry students have their designs on top fashion award
Five out of the 10 finalists for a prestigious fashion award at Birmingham NEC’s 2011 Clothes Show Live event are students from Coventry University
Sutton MP wins website Usability Award
Andrew Mitchell, MP for Sutton Coldfield, has received the Usability Award in the MP Web Awards organised by BCS
A library is not just a building
Friends of the Central Library: “Save the building but we’re just as worried about what is happening to the service itself”, writes Alan Clawley.
D-Factor entrants wanted
Local dachshunds sought for playful performance – 60 dachshunds needed to take part in art installation as part of Fierce Festival 2012
New Exhibition at Gas Hall
A major contemporary craft exhibition opened in Birmingham at the weekend
Coventry design graduate excels in ‘Dragons’ Den’-style car awards
A recent graduate of Transport and Product Design from Coventry University has made it through to the final six of the prestigious Autocar-Courland Next Generation Award, a ‘Dragon’s Den’-style competition for talented young automotive designers. Callum Nash, 24, from Scarborough, North Yorkshire, put forward his radical idea for a new take on personal transportation…
Look into The Cube
Birmingham’s latest ‘landmark’ destination, The Cube, will host a VIP open weekend
Fashionable Birmingham
Damian Marquez is helping to position Birmingham as a centre of sartorial elegance.
Kindle: We’re All Suckers Now
Richard Lutz asks if the Kindle e-book is the best thing since sliced bread or just a slick nasty marketing tool.
The Magnificent Seven, plus…
Andy Munro gives us his good, bad and ugly of Brummie architecture
Waving goodbye to oil?
Hydrogen car launch in Coventry heralds the future of green motoring
Keeping the lights on (with apologies to Private Eye)
“No more pylons – no more windfarms”. Alan Clawley wonders where the leccy is going to be coming from.
Birmingham man nails market gap
Something for smart-phone users to chew on
Moseley Road Baths Art Show
Moseley Road Baths, Birmingham’s historic Grade II* swimming baths building in Balsall Heath is to be the subject of a one-day art exhibition
The Battle for Stirchley
There’s a power struggle going on in Stirchley, the up-and-coming suburb of South Birmingham that many people are touting as ‘the new Kings Heath’
The Welsh national culture
Alan Clawley has been to Wales and wonders if the English are missing a trick.
Tower envy in the city
Alan Clawley writes in defence of architect John Madin
Bring Back the King
When it comes to art Andy Munro knows what he likes.
Bournville Lane Baths open day
Saturday, September 3rd affords what is expected to be the last opportunity for the public to see inside the 100-year old Bournville Lane Baths.
The Birmingham Council myth machine
Here’s how the Council operates. First it decides what it wants to do. Then it fits the facts around its decision.
Coventry confirmed as the Hovercraft capital of Europe!
Much less bovver with an ‘over?
The Public celebrates its first two years
The Public in West Bromwich is two years old this month.
Carbuncle Architecture
Alan Clawley asks, “Should the design of major buildings like The Public, The Cube or Birmingham’s new Library be left to a few elite architects and their patrons?”
Markets for sale
Birmingham City Council has had its eye on the 21 acres of prime development land occupied by the Wholesale Markets for some years. Bleak future ahead, reckons Alan Clawley.
The Master Planners
The Master Planner’s plans are oft foiled by circumstances beyond their control. Birmingham has suffered as a result.
Green award for Coventry University’s Phoenix Racing team
Coventry University’s Phoenix Racing team has won the Shell-sponsored award for the ‘Most Fuel-efficient Car’
Enterprise Zone no help
The idea of giving business a helping hand to redevelop Paradise Circus by making it part of an ‘Enterprise Zone’ seems to have fallen flat, writes Alan Clawley
Paradise lost?
Alan Clawley raises questions concerning the redevelopment plans for Birmingham’s Paradise Circus
Coventry motorsport students aiming for Silverstone success
Motorsport engineering students at Coventry University will be aiming for the top step of the podium at Silverstone next weekend
Charity ends at the Council House
So what exactly is the point of merging the Millennium Point Trust and Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery as announced this week?