New Futures for Birmingham`s Historic Buildings

Saving Spaghetti

Posted August 24th, 2014 by Matthew Vaughan with 7 Comments

Birmingham’s Motor Age: courtesy of English Heritage The inner ring road and the infrastructure of the Manzoni era (1930’s to 1960’s) is today widely held as the biggest error in post war planning in Birmingham, itself often held up as an example of ...

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Raw Beauty Conference

Posted June 30th, 2014 by Matthew Vaughan with 2 Comments

The most common rationale for the preservation of buildings of the recent past was voiced by Joe Holyoak in his opening remarks for this conference on Brutalist architecture in Birmingham on the 28th of June. He described these buildings as at present ...

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