New Futures for Birmingham`s Historic Buildings

Why contribute to the spread of ugliness? – an exhibition on John Madin at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham

Posted April 14th, 2012 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with 1 Comment

One of the boxes from the John Madin Design Group. Image copyright Stuart Whipps. Click to visit his website. Last month I decided to take a look around the Ikon Gallery where I was just in time to see the exhibition ‘Why Contribute ...

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Project Brutal: Update

Posted May 4th, 2010 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with No Comments

Following on from a previous post about Project Brutal: the project now has a discussion forum, where the people interested in documenting the Central Library can chat. The forum can be found here. Photo credit: Martin Hartland

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Project Brutal

Posted March 25th, 2010 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with 1 Comment

Birmingham Central Library could be considered the Marmite of libraries: you either love it, or you hate it. Well, here is a project for those who wish to profess their love for that Brutalist structure: Project Brutal. (via Created in Birmingham) “Project Brutal: Initial ...

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