Birmingham boasts a wide array of breath-taking architecture, from timeless classics such as the City Council House and Moor Street Station, to the modern marvels of the Library and Selfridges. I'm here today in the city centre to ask people their favourites examples.
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00:00I've traveled quite a bit and I'm very fond of Birmingham because it's
00:07kept its local vernacular, it's got some fabulous older buildings but it's also
00:13allowed some of the more modern designs to permeate into quite close into the
00:19CBD itself. So you've got places like 103 Commonwealth Road which is quite close
00:25into what we are here in Victoria Square where you've got the fabulous Town Hall
00:32whatever you call it locally I don't know but there's some beautiful old
00:36stuff. So I used to stamp the centre of London and this is the closest I've
00:41found. Now that's probably a bit of a bit of a swear word on Birmingham but I
00:46think what the the local architecture has here is fantastic and I think some
00:52of the new stuff that's going up really celebrates that in the way that it's
00:56sympathetic to it but it moves forward as well. Okay first of all of course the
01:02City Hall is a major landmark in Birmingham. Also I was stunned by a
01:08number of buildings that although they look abandoned they're pretty
01:12massive and interesting. The Britannia Hotel I think if you if you know it
01:17pretty well and they also I'm interested in the landmarks like the
01:22rail you know the the viaducts the viaduct that's that's outside the city
01:27in Digbet and I'm pretty impressed with the variety the
01:34diversity that you find. There's different periods there's brutalism there is
01:38Victorian style. I loved the 19th century architecture the grandeur of the public
01:44buildings the Town Hall the museum the Queen Victoria statue and the
01:51uniformity of the architecture in New Street.