Just to keep upto date for people, its been a busy couple of months.

Tramps Tower - 140m+ (Proposed/Rumour)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v441/woodhousen/tramps.jpg

Tate Tower - Eastside 130m+ (170m+ spire) (Pre Planning/Design Comp. Winner)
http://www.kinetic-aiu.com/resized_images/1057_04.jpg

Lugate Towers - 120-130m x 2, 1x 50-60m (Proposed/Rumours/Submitiion end 2005)
http://tinypic.com/5v698j

Park Central Tower 90m (Approved)
http://www.skyscrapernews.com/images/pics/2378RetailQuarter,ParkCentral_pic1.jpg

The Cube - Mailbox 70m (Proposed/Work Commence Jan. 2006)
http://www.property-week.co.uk/Pictures/web/e/j/v/FRONT_VIEW_CMYK.jpg

Belgrave Middleway Tower - 65-70m (Approved)
http://www.triprop.co.uk/images/b4.jpg

New City Park Gate Tower - 70m (Height increase under consideration)
http://www.richardrogers.co.uk/Asp/uploadedFiles/image/4100_birmingham_city_park_gate/4100_0002_1_W.jpg

Peat House - 59m (Approved)
http://tinypic.com/2jdwn6

Edgbaston Shopping Redevlopment - 73m
http://www.skyscrapernews.com/images/pics/572EdgbastonShoppingCentreRedevelopment(Phase2)_pic3.jpg

Also -
*75m Martineu Gallery Tower Proposed
*50m Residential Masshouse U/C
*90m Orion tower U/C
*122m (130m to spire) HCT nearing completion
*50m Westside extention nearing completion

Things have certainly picked up a bit over the last couple of weeks...

Tate Tower (170m+ spire)
Blimey... first I've heard of this. :)

Thanks for the update.Things seem to be taking off for the first time in a couple of years.Lets hope these plans become a reality.

Feel free to add anymore if or when they come along as I will be on holiday next week :cheers:

I think you definitely deserve a holiday BC after digging out all these renderings

Thanks for all your efforts in the recent months BC and the others that have dug up these proposals, i just hope thats not our lot for this year and it all goes quiet again but with all the big projects due for planning applications in the second half of the year i can't see that happening too much. :)

wow those aren't the obvious ones! well done for finding them

Yes for sure, 2005 is a good year for brum.

im afraid you need to change all those heights to a ceiling of around 120m

im afraid you need to change all those heights to a ceiling of around 120m

Na ha

We'll see. ever the optimist eh Ghostdog? :)

If LBT can skirt round the rules then so can we!

120 isnt the limit, depends on the height on the building sites.

true but i think most of these places are on higher ground than HCT which is limited to 122m (broad street certainly is anyhow). People need to lobby the council to change these CAA restrictions as at the moment they seem all too happy to stick with them.

doesnt the park central tower look like this

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=227659

Sorry to go over old ground - didn't the CAA relinquish control over the height thing and pass it on to the airports themselves (in BHX's case, controlled by the local councils)???

220m shorter unfortunately :(

doesnt the park central tower look like this

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=227659

We can dream.

Though i see what you mean, there are slight similarities in the designs.

Sorry to go over old ground - didn't the CAA relinquish control over the height thing and pass it on to the airports themselves (in BHX's case, controlled by the local councils)???

Yes thats true, I originally soke to head honcho at Brum Airport and he was quite supportive of A.C. and liked the idea of there being more of a view over the city when flying in/over it, unfortunately the High Places document has not been updated other than when I spoke to Cheif planning guy at council about restricting heights years ago and they revised it with some other wording like "in general no building should exceed 242 metres...etc"

that might allow clustering in specific areas. Right though, its old ground.

I can't help thinking that I might have actually pre-empted the design of this new proposed London tower a few years back when I posted up MY own impression of what I wished the Colmore Tower in Brum would look like if it was to be a tall 180m+ building - the design would have been a unique landmark spiral structure clad in blue/green glass and steel topped with a helix crown antenna (which the London proposal looks uncannily similar to...). These were the views I imagined from south and north.....remember these images everyone?

View of Colmore Tower from St Philip's Cathedral dome:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v176/MartianG/ColmoreTower1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v176/MartianG/ColmoreTower2.jpg

View of Colmore Tower from the A38(M) at dusk with HCT clearly visible...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v176/MartianG/BrumCitySkyline.jpg


And these were the recently published London proposals of course....

http://images.thisislondon.co.uk/v2/news/londonskyscape230605_450x350.jpg

http://www.skyscrapernews.com/images/pics/2839DIFATower_pic1.jpg

http://www.skyscrapernews.com/images/pics/325DIFAProposeNewTallestForLondon_pic2.jpg


Uncannily prescient of me or what? And isn't it just typical that my best ideas get pilfered for yet more buildings in the Capital instead? How fucking predictable and unfair is that now that Brum is doomed to languish in mediocre mid-rise hell with AC looking increasingly implausible and no further buildings of more than 120-130m proposed for the foreseeable future? :bleep:

Hello MG....yep, definite similarities there......I'd get onto your lawyers

It's just a tad sinister - could they have been reading my mind or - indeed - been snooping on these forums in a concerted effort to hijack some of our own forumers' [albeit pie-in-the-sky and decidedly fanciful] ideas?

We need to be told! :(

Something very sinister is going on....just as I was about to reply to you a Saint Ettiene song came on my multichanger random thing.....I know you're a fan and we used to discuss such things....even my cd player can read your mind

Something very sinister is going on....just as I was about to reply to you a Saint Ettiene song came on my multichanger random thing.....I know you're a fan and we used to discuss such things....even my cd player can read your mind



I was at the Saint Etienne Manchester gig a couple of weeks ago - it was the only time I managed to get out in ages cos I've been very ill for the last five months (and I still am - I actually can't work anymore now - on disability benefit until further notice - the problem I have is crucifying me and making my life unbearable, considering I turn 40 in July also adds to my depression and despair at the way things have become of late) and took loads of pictures of the band and backstage with my favourite slinky siren songstress Sarah - you can see them all on this link if you wish...


http://p218.ezboard.com/fsaintetienneloversunitefrm2.showMessage?topicID=639.topic

and the review I put up here:

http://p218.ezboard.com/fsaintetienneloversunitefrm2.showMessage?topicID=617.topic

and my brief review in the local online paper as well:

http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/entertainment/music/livereviews/comments/view.html?story_id=163111

Looks nice, modern without being too Will Alsop Tellytubbyland-esque.

BTW, hi Martin G. :wave:

erm, is this another wind up Martin? if not that is quite scary...

You do remember those pictures I posted up (via your own web-host page I believe) a couple of years back didn't you? When I saw these pics of the Bishopsgate proposal in London (307m tall) I just did a double take and thought "Jesus, a spiral tower for London?? - but I thought of that idea first when I came up with a fantasy scheme for Brum, you bastards!!" thinking how cool it would be for the city to have a tall building with such a distinctive shape that has never before been adopted in the UK - okay so overall it doesn't look exactly the same as the London one but then the top part (the antenna and spiral helix) is so identical it's scary.

Here are another two of the original "impressions" I did of the Brum skyline showing the Colmore Tower....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v176/MartianG/BrumSkyline2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v176/MartianG/BrumSkyline.jpg


Plus, you recall, my impression of a taller, re-clad Rotunda with revolving restaurant and antenna on top....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v176/MartianG/NewRotunda2.jpg

...and one of a variety of possible designs for the Paradise Circus Towers (also visible in different designs on the two skyline pics posted above)....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v176/MartianG/ParadiseCircTower1a.jpg

...and in a different colour variation - gold!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v176/MartianG/ParadiseCircTower1b.jpg

Gold, quite the colour.

Anyone do a recap of the towers proposed in 2005 and towers proposed so far in 2006?