Paradise pre development 2014 -2016

[Jayell]

Brilliant information. Thank you all so much.

Guilbert53. The Skyscraper Site was fantastic and very informative. I must look at it more often!

Dave the up-to-date photos of the area were just what I needed.

Ellbrown I used to know the area well when I lived there and regularly used the bus up Broad Street and Hagley Road up until 1963. But its good to know that I can still get up that way by bus if necessary.

Thank you all so very much. It will make my visit easier knowing how to get around all the redevelopment.

Judy

 

[ellbrown]

Ellbrown I used to know the area well when I lived there and regularly used the bus up Broad Street and Hagley Road up until 1963. But its good to know that I can still get up that way by bus if necessary.

Thank you all so very much. It will make my visit easier knowing how to get around all the redevelopment.

Judy

It's changed quite a bit in the past 50+ years! Not sure you'd recognise it! Tower blocks are now converted into hotels for instance.

Was loads of tourists around Brindley Place for instance today.

 

[Jayell]

Agreed Ellbrown - although I do come back regularly to visit so I'm aware of how much things have changed over the years. However I've not seen any of the recent developments as its been a couple of years since I was last in Brum. That's why I appreciate your knowledge.

Judy

 

[ellbrown]

Round about October when the Great Birmingham Run is on, you could watch it on Channel 5. They usually finish the race on Broad Street.

Various new buildings will be built at Arena Central, approximately where Central TV used to be, before they moved to Gas Street.

 

[ellbrown]

Fletchers Walk demolition seen from the end of Paradise Street near Suffolk Street Queensway.

 

[Frothblower]

Might not get build at all if Corillian go under.

 

[ellbrown]

I just found this on a Google search https://lostbritain.uk/site/birmingham-central-library-brutalist/

The 200 seat Library Theatre was built between the School of Music and the reference library block in 1983–86. The theatre was a design and build scheme by Henry Boot Projects. Although the design was in Madin’s original plans, Madin did not approve of the design and build method and subsequently had no involvement in the building. Chamberlain House and the Copthorne Hotel were built to the west of the library in 1985–87 by Leonard J. Multon & Partners with wedge shaped ends. In an October 1988 television documentary A Vision of Britain, Prince Charles attacked the building saying it looked like “a place where books are incinerated, not kept”.

To the north of the library where an Athletic Institute was originally to be built a six storey office block was built in 1988–89 by Leonard J. Multon & Partners. A footbridge connecting the library with Centenary Square was added as part of improvements to the square in 1988–89. The atrium was enclosed with a glass roof and screens by the City Architect’s Department in 1989–91.The space below was named Paradise Forum, originally proposed as an alfresco eating and entertainment area but eventually leased to property companies who sublet the units to shops and fast food outlet tenants. The uncompleted bus interchange became service areas for the tenants of Paradise Forum. In 1999 the whole of Paradise Forum was sold off to Argent Group.