Now
http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b4d720b3127cce99b64567d2a100000026108AcN2jlq0ZNh

Future
http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/8079/47b4d720b3127cce99b64567d2a100.jpg

Now
http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b4d720b3127cce99b64564539200000026108AcN2jlq0ZNh

Future
http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/9127/47b4d720b3127cce99b64564539200.jpg

^^ nice, but lets hope they put it up vertically instead of on the piss.

Nah, I'd like to see a leaning tower.
Obviously the helipad would have to be level - we'll wedge a couple of beer mats under one side.

Castle Vale, might be recent hence lack of towers.

http://web.castlevale.bham.sch.uk/images/nightlight.jpg

Birmingham taken in 1996 from the university

http://graphics.stanford.edu/~bjohanso/england/u-birm/muirhead.jpg

With Birminghams 3 main Proposed, Approved and U/C scrapers.

http://img323.imageshack.us/img323/6339/brum1113ew.jpg

I managed to shoot and stitch this view from Legge Lane in the Jewellery Quarter yesterday.

CH

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c258/cargohold/Skyline2.jpg

make a decent banner that

Look at this growing skyline - it will look superb when Orion and HCT are lit up.

http://www.imagesofbirmingham.co.uk/php-cgi/gallery/albums/Aerial-Images/06CH1205_279.jpg

And another one taken from Quayside

http://www.imagesofbirmingham.co.uk/php-cgi/gallery/albums/Aerial-Images/06CH1205_232.jpg

Hyatt and the Birmingham Wheel - granted further permission to remian until 2007

http://www.imagesofbirmingham.co.uk/php-cgi/gallery/albums/latest/12CH1205_414.jpg

Looking down towards Holloway Circus.

http://www.imagesofbirmingham.co.uk/php-cgi/gallery/albums/latest/12CH1205_350.jpg

Hyatt, Quayside and the Wheel

http://www.imagesofbirmingham.co.uk/php-cgi/gallery/albums/latest/12CH1205_344.jpg

Birminghams T-Mobile ice rink

http://www.imagesofbirmingham.co.uk/php-cgi/gallery/albums/latest/12CH1205_426.jpg

and looking towards the university and the Chamberlain clock tower

http://www.imagesofbirmingham.co.uk/php-cgi/gallery/albums/latest/270805_591.jpg

An old one from Aston campus.

http://www.myprogress.com/~david/Pictures/ViewFromAstonTower.jpg

Thanks for those BC.I've never seen that HCT angle before.The one taken from Aston University looks good too.

http://www.eee.nott.ac.uk/MScPowerDrives/AerialBirmingham.jpg

http://www.bham.ac.uk/imageslib/UH9.jpg

Some of those builiding put up in the 60s were terrible wer'nt they?

Even ignoring the Red brick, couldn'r they have made a least some effort to fit in with the orginal buildings? Like putting them in a semi-circle or something?

great pic,, would look even bettter on a nice sunny day.

http://www.myprogress.com/~david/Pictures/ViewFromAstonTower.jpg[/QUOTE]

Hey Highriser - good to see you! Don't you think our Central Hall (red block with clock tower) looks like somebody's town hall but in terracotta!

Ey alright matey,, how was LALA land :)

Yeah ive always liked that building in Brum when ive seen it, i prefer that Chamberlain clock tower though, if i could nick that for Manc i would,, have a good one tomorrow matey :)

Cheers Dave! Yeah LA was great but a long long time ago it seems, a bit like the temperature difference! I'm actually free tomorrow night after having my son all week, but being NYs eve, everything trebles in price in town, so I might walk up my local with some mates. How was Napoli?

Napoli was very nice , i survived the traffic :)

anyway matey have good night whatever you do,, im going to Federation in Manc, am i getting to old for this ? AM I BOLLOX :)..i'll buzz ya in the new year, i'll probably popping down to Brum again soon.

http://www.brummieblogs.com/bhamlickeys.jpg

took this picture whilst i was down at xmas

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v441/woodhousen/P1010061.jpg

Nice pic from up on the Beeches Woody :)

HCT is becoming our own Canary Wharf from that angle - slightly out on a limb.

Those 4 blocks of flats on the left are up for demolition soon. Not sure when though.

Nice photo Woodhousen.

Great Photo Woodhousen...

I wonder how Manchester and Birmingham's skyline is gonna fair in 2020..? At the present time Birmingham has a more denser and urbanated skyline...Nethertheless Manchester has a rapid boom... Could its skyline really beat ours...

Grrrrrr8 photograph (a variation on the last 3 posts!) That's a strange area by that reservoir, been there a few times. There's this lickle church on a tight bend in the road that could easily be somewhere in the Cotswolds, then a short drive down the road you're in tower block city. It shows just how cities "spread" into the countryside and it scares me that very soon those sheepsies will soon be eating off tarmac :(

Every time I see a picture of the resevoir, it always seems really weird to me. Where the water meets the shore line it doesn't really seem to connect and looks like 2 completely different things spliced together. Anyone else get that?

Every time I see a picture of the resevoir, it always seems really weird to me. Where the water meets the shore line it doesn't really seem to connect and looks like 2 completely different things spliced together. Anyone else get that?

I see what you mean. It's probably because there's quite a big dip after the dam, which makes it look like the houses and buildings are being chopped off by the water line.

A now and future view from St. Andrews.

http://www.homesoffootball.co.uk/3332_BIRMINGHAM_CITY.jpg

http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/587/untitled1112tc.png

And another

http://www.homesoffootball.co.uk/3331_BIRMINGHAM_CITY.jpg

http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/7204/untitled11118ji.png

A now and future view from St. Andrews.



No that's cheating. That's a pic from the Tilton looking at the old railway end stand that was demolished and rebuilt in 1999. You can't see the syline now as the new stand is much taller

Go and stand outside the stadium and you can still get a pick of the skyline

You think, you can see Kevin Francis on the ball it was when you were in division 2 ;)

nope - weve got the 'penguin stripe on circa '97 - '98!!

Division 1 i'll have you know.....(i'd make a joke about wolves at this point....but i don't wanna tempt fate)

Just imagine if that dam broke....

Nice mock ups.

With the paradise circus redevlopment (2, 110-120m rumoured - nothing happening for a while however and might never happen) but still ...

http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/2416/may2005paradise4bn.jpg

http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/5296/may2005paradiseinvertcolours8r.jpg


Surely the whole point of having the BT Tower that tall is so the links can reach it from other masts. Put stuff in front of it may block that

Mark - I am getting the feeling you like telecommunications...? ;)

The BT tower dishes are mostly angled slightly upwards, so there wouldn't be much of a problem. And Rough Diamond is lower. AC wouldn't interfere.

I suspect Rough Diamond is pie in the sky anyway.

I read somewhere that our & London's BT towers are the right height so they can transmit to each other in a straight line taking into account the curvature of the earth. I wonder if it's true?

Very much into communications

There is about 10 BT towers in the UK or so

Brum
London
Peterborough
Purdown
Pye green

And a few other. All networked incase the BT digital network goes down

Combined Birmingham has an quite an attractive skyline if all built ;)

http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/7889/emporis110qp.png