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Then, now and 2026? Birmingham's Curzon Street Station in pictures
Retail & Consumer
We take a look through the ages and at a potential future for one of Birmingham's most loved, but neglected buildings
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Birmingham's Hidden Spaces: Inside Curzon Street, the oldest railway terminus in the world
Hidden Spaces
It is a powerful landmark of national importance; an immovable structure of ashlar, adorned by huge Ionic columns, and a reminder of the city’s importance as a former industrial power
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Birmingham's Hidden Spaces: An architect's view of an evolving city
Hidden Spaces
The richness and variety of Birmingham’s architecture however, goes far deeper than the surface. Some of the most tangible parts of its history that remain are manifested beneath the surface
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Exchange Square development at Masshouse Circus given outline planning consent
Commercial Property
Plans for a new mixed use development in Birmingham city centre have passed their first hurdle.
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The second phase of new Birmingham City University home under construction
Birmingham Skyline 2014
A Birmingham university’s £180 million move to the city centre continues apace with the construction of a second new building in Eastside.
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£400m scheme to transform Snow Hill station
Economic Development
Proposals include a grand new entrance into the Livery Street side of the station – opening up the Colmore Business District
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HS2 opponents given chance to put their case to Commons committee
Economic Development
High Speed Rail project connecting Birmingham to the south has divided opinion throughout the country
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Comment: Sir Albert Bore on the HS2 Hybrid Bill
Economic Development
Birmingham City Council leader Sir Albert Bore explains why he is supporting High Speed 2
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City arts graduates given chance to exhibit at leading galleries through New Art West Midlands scheme
Economic Development
Graduates are given the opportunity to show their work in four of the region’s leading galleries, including Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
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25 artist's impressions of Birmingham buildings - did the architects get it right?
Economic Development
Thankfully, some were consigned to the design dustbin. Others became reality and followed their initial vision to the most detailed finish
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Birmingham to Coventry Metro line being considered
Economic Development
The proposal is part of a bid to ensure that the wider region, not just Birmingham city centre, benefits from the development of superfast rail
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Whatever happened to the Vertiplex theme park in Birmingham?
Economic Development
Skyscraping project received planning permission in 2010 - but progress stalled and a university campus has been built in its place.
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Eastside firms say Car2Go 'missed opportunity'
Economic Development
Car sharing scheme  scheme has not been extended to Birmingham Science Park tenants near Aston University, where the council controls car parking
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Top US magazine pushes visitors to Birmingham
Economic Development
The New York Magazine article lavishes praise on progress of city's leisure offer
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Birmingham Big Art Project consults renowned curators
Economic Development
The five-year project aims to deliver a £1 million piece of public arts that will help put Birmingham on the international map and perhaps even emerge as a tourist attraction in its own right.
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Battle to raise funds for new Spitfire gallery in Birmingham
Economic Development
The public will be asked to help raise funds for a dedicated new exhibition space for the Second World War Spitfire and Hawker Hurricane.
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From the archives: How The Library of Birmingham could have looked
Economic Development
Ken Shuttleworth, Glenn Howells and Adjaye Associates came up with designs for city's new library
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Art project starts to bear fruit at Fierce Festival
Retail & Consumer
Birmingham’s Fierce Festival returns this weekend. Graham Young takes a look at what to expect from the edgy contemporary arts event.
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Birmingham's Fierce Festival gets set to serve up a weekend feast of live arts
Retail & Consumer
Beginning with platefuls of produce and ending with a psychedelic light show, the event also features a New York rapper, a feminist's Monster Body and a giant polar bear...
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Digbeth businesses fear being cut off from city centre by HS2
Economic Development
Businesses in Digbeth have added their voices to the concerns over HS2 – fearing it will create an “impermeable barrier” from the city centre.
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The Eastside Library Of Birmingham that never was
Opinion
The plans for a new Library of Birmingham had been revealed in 2001. It was to be built not in Centenary Square, but at Eastside...
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The futuristic vision of a Birmingham that never was
Economic Development
A fascinating insight into how 1950s town planners envisioned Birmingham has been revealed with the reprint of two influential books that helped shape the nation’s cities. Enda Mullen reports
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Forgotten domestic skills are a pure joy
Retail & Consumer
Celebrity gardener Alys Fowler has stepped out of the garden and into her Kings Heath kitchen to come up with inventive ways to make her home-grown produce go further.
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Birmingham City University's new campus grand opening
Economic Development
A group of professionals from Birmingham Future & Birmingham Forward visited Birmingham City University’s new city centre campus, in Eastside.
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