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Primark

A bit of sky blue light on Primark on the Moor Street Queensway side. M & S lit up in green during the blue hour near Carrs Lane.

 
Wam
The building was covered in hoardings during the work, but if you had gone by on High St at one particular time you would have seen that the centre, at least, had largely been demolished and a whole new set of girders erected. this would have been where the central atrium was with the escalators etc. I would say therefore thta a large part of the building was new. I think I have a photo I took, and will try and find it
 
Wam
Found it. I would say this is building a new building, Taken on 27th march from High St
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Another eye sore, to me anyway. What is it about modern architects, there are other materials besides glass, concrete and steel
 
Radiorails said:
Ell, can you explain the 'blue hour' to us country yokels. :laughing:
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Just after sunset as it's getting dark. The sky was still blue, before it went black, if that makes sense! The first hours of darkness in the evening, when it was still getting dark.
 
The old Pavilions building is still underneath. In fact you can still see the bricks below the cladding on Moor Street Queensway. And a section opposite the Bullring near Waterstone's hasn't been cladded at all!
 
This Primark view from Digbeth Junction (near Fazeley Street on the Digbeth Branch Canal).





From here you can't see the bottom that isn't cladded on the Moor Street Queensway side.
 
Some of the cladding seems to be a sort of mesh. It reminded me of the stuff my dad put on the front of a "radiogram" he made from parts of old ones!
It isn't very pleasant walking by there now, so much noise, many charity collectors trying to stop to talk, people begging and the bedding of rough sleepers, sometimes it's still occupied! (Yes I know there are genuine cases, that's another topic.)
rosie.
 
The Primark sign is now visible from Moor Street Queensway when lit up when it gets dark behind the film.

Half an hour after 5pm and was still light but getting dark near Moor Street Station.



 
It would fit in well with the depressing world with no taste shown in film Bladerunner (below}

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The new Primark is grim in appearance, without doubt. At fist glance I thought of the U boat base in western France. Or was it some nuclear facility that I had in mind?
 
I've only been in Primark once, many years ago, with my granddaughter and couldn't wait to get out. It was like a mad house!
 
View from the 50 on Moor Street. This past week they have been painting the bricks below the cladding. Also installed a steel structure above the Moor Street Queensway entrance.

 
What will it look like in 20-30 years, concrete does not 'weather' very well unlike the more traditional building materials, assuming it is still there in that time. Eric
 
It's not concrete. It's a metal or plastic cladding over the old building! And the bricks below from the Pavilions building have been painted!
 
Do you remember when the House of Fraser (Rackhams) opened it was pretty ugly and still is but its handy if you want to pay £600 for a handbag. Unfortunately most people do not, nor do they want to pay an £8.00 congestion charge. At least Primark will attract people into Birmingham City Centre.
 
Opens in April 2019! Banner seen from Moor Street Queensway. The entrance below doesn't look finished when I pass it on the bus.

 
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