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The Selfridges Building is a landmark building in Birmingham, England. The building is part of the Bullring Shopping Centre and houses Selfridges Department Store. The building was completed in 2003 at a cost of £60 million [1] and designed by the architecture firm Future Systems. It has a steel framework with sprayed concrete facade. [2]
The Bull Ring is a major shopping area in central Birmingham, England, consisting of open-air and indoor market stalls as well as a large indoor shopping centre.The Bull Ring has been an important feature of Birmingham since the Middle Ages, when its market was first held, developing into its main market when the town grew into an industrial city.
It offers rides such as a daisy-chained go-kart track ride (with 'spooky' tunnels), and a two-person manually operated bell-rope pirate ship swings. There is a Sea Cadets dry-dock training vessel ("the Concrete Corvette") at Boldmere Gate along with the headquarters of the 1st Sutton Coldfield Sea Scouts, and at the other side of the park the ...
The centrepieces of Birmingham's park system are the five Premier Parks. Fifteen parks have received the prestigious Green Flag Award. [4] The city also has five local nature reserves, one national nature reserve and a number of Wildlife Trust nature reserves. One of Birmingham's most popular parks is Cannon Hill Park which covers 250 acres ...
The City Flyer ride in Centenery Square dropped to the ground level ‘whilst in operation’ Two women hospitalised after fairground ride ‘failed and crashed’ in Birmingham city centre Skip ...
Birmingham city centre, also known as Central Birmingham or town, is the central business district of Birmingham, England. The area was historically in Warwickshire . Following the removal of the Inner Ring Road , the city centre is now defined as being the area within the Middleway ring road. [ 1 ]
Moor Street station in 1915, from end of the platform, looking back towards the city centre, with the goods shed to the left. A local train waits at the terminus platforms in 1975. It was a terminus for local trains from Leamington Spa , and local trains from Stratford-upon-Avon via the recently opened North Warwickshire Line .
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 ...