Discover the stories and secrets of Brum’s Hidden Spaces. As part of the RIBA Love Architecture Week there is a photography exhibition on at the moment running until Sunday 29th June called ‘Birmingham’s Hidden Spaces’. The aim of the exhibition is to reveal the stories and secrets behind the façades of many well-known […]
Discovering Birmingham’s extensive collection of beautiful terracotta buildings. Red, bold, ornate and beautiful…these are some of the words which spring to my mind when I see the striking Victoria Law Courts on Corporation Street built in 1891. For me, it is the material which provides the stunning architectural beauty of this […]
There are many interesting buildings in the historical Jewellery Quarter and unfortunately many are in a bad state of disrepair…however for one building a new chapter is about to begin…. Last weekend I went on a behind the scenes tour of the latest Birmingham Conservation Trust project; The Standard Works on Vittoria Street in the Jewellery […]