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Octagon is a 155 m (509 ft) tall, 49-storey residential skyscraper under construction in Birmingham, England. The building is part of the Paradise redevelopment scheme in the city centre and is designed by Glenn Howells Architects. Due to its unique design, Octagon is envisaged by its developers as becoming a landmark building for the city.
The tallest building in the Birmingham Metropolitan Area is Octagon, a 49-storey, 155-metre (509 ft) residential tower which forms part of the Paradise development in Birmingham city centre. Octagon surpassed Birmingham's tallest structure , the 140-metre (458 ft) BT Tower , and previous tallest residential building, the 132-metre (433 ft ...
The Birmingham Back to Backs (also known as Court 15) are the city's last surviving court of back-to-back houses. They are preserved as examples of the thousands of similar houses that were built around shared courtyards, for the rapidly increasing population of Britain's expanding industrial towns. They are a very particular sort of British ...
Front of Baskerville House during refurbishment in 2006 before work on the Library of Birmingham began. Formerly offices for parts of Birmingham City Council, including the Planning Department [4] and Economic Development Department, the Grade II listed building [5] remained vacant for several years after the City Council vacated the property in the spring of 1998.
10 Holloway Circus (also referred to as the Holloway Circus Tower or Beetham Tower) is a 400-foot (122 m) tall mixed-use skyscraper in Birmingham city centre, England. It was originally named after the developers, Beetham Organisation , and was designed by Ian Simpson and built by Laing O'Rourke . [ 1 ]
The Orion Building is a 90-metre (295 ft) tall high rise residential building on Navigation Street, Birmingham 5, England. Construction of the tower began in 2004 with demolition of the previous building on the site, and was completed in 2007. As part of the development, the original façades of some of the previous buildings have been retained ...
Birmingham city's total population was 977,099 in 2001. The 2005 estimate for the population of the district of Birmingham was 1,001,200. This is the first time the population has broken the 1,000,000 barrier since 1996. [7] This was a population increase of 0.9% (8,800) from 2004, higher than the 0.6% for the United Kingdom as a whole and 0.7% ...
The Hall was built between 1557 and 1585 by Sir Edward Devereux, 1st Baronet of Castle Bromwich, MP for Tamworth in Staffordshire. It was single storey with a plain entrance. It was then bought by Sir John Bridgeman (son of Orlando Bridgeman, keeper of the Great Seal) in 1657. He extended and improved the property in 1672, adding the second ...