http://img454.imageshack.us/img454/4898/pict00205cd.jpg
Believe it or not, this was completed only weeks ago.
Just curious to hear peoples views on this disgrace in urban planning.

3 words what the fuck?

Thanks for choosing the worst hotel in Birmingham for a 'rate-a-scraper' I hope it's a joke or just a dig? 1/10... but i struggle to see where the 1 came from...

Its not a dig at Brum. I know very well that the Brummies condemn this building. This is just the worst newbuild I have ever seen since I joined this forum though...

Show them the pictures of the "back".

It's one saving grace is the fact it's not that massive, and imposing over the skyline.

It's terrible.

2/10. An absolute disgrace! Where are EH when they are really needed?

:puke:

2!

I am unable to vote because the poll has only positive scores.

-5/10

Oh god, it's hideous! I'm not looking forward to seeing the Glasgow Etap completed :ohno: 1/10

I'll give it 2 because it had scope to be much much worse, and the workmanship is actually quite good...

Without rubbing salt in the wounds, Etap also has plans for Leeds, in a pretty damn nice tower, although it was built speculatively. Etap seems to be targetting the UK - good thing is it's only £32 per night. Atleast if you stay in it you get to look out of it not at it! http://www.thegatewayleeds.com/

I voted a one but it deserves minus 10 at least. A shitebox of a shitty building covered in shite, made by shatters who shat the bed.

In other words i dont like it.

Perfect spot for a tower and we end up with a giant plaster - Good un.

1/10

Without rubbing salt in the wounds, Etap also has plans for Leeds, in a pretty damn nice tower, although it was built speculatively. Etap seems to be targetting the UK - good thing is it's only £32 per night. Atleast if you stay in it you get to look out of it not at it! http://www.thegatewayleeds.com/

Wait till you see the little windows and lack of detail, an even bigger Prison!

Possibly. In fact Armley Jail is a pretty funky building.

It's better than, and God forgive me for this:

http://tinypic.com/fdayk8.jpg

(edited to add, notice another hotel in the far left of the above picture, so where would you choose to stay?)

oh sweet jesus, that is bad, truely abysmal.

there's functional, and then there's a look that seems to remind me of one of my old Universities Halls of Residence which was famously modelled on a Swedish prison block. I'd expect Etap might not even want their name attached to such an elephants dump of a piece of architecture.

I'm praying the Leeds Etap doesn't look as 'budget' as that.

^^Did you go to Ranmoor by any chance jimbo?

What a fucking disgrace? Which shitbrained arsewipe gave this bunch of toss planning permission, and who the fuck was the architect? Stevie fucking Wonder?

Rigadong gave it a five?!?!?

Mighty generous there matey...

who gave it a 10. lol

Mr Etap gave it a ten ! WANKY SHIT SO IT IS !

haha. it was tonytowers. Glaswegians have a sense of architecture. :doh:

I couldn't comment tho. I voted a 10 for our city's imitation of the Guild Centre in Preston.

Stayed in it a few nights ago - Confirmation: ITS SHITE

1/10

Rigadong gave it a five?!?!?

Mighty generous there matey...


yeah probably should have been a 4 but it was partly in reaction to the over the top comments form others

It undoubtedly poor, it has very little detail and the crappy little windows are a bit of disgrace but I struggle to HATE this building.

Its in an unimportant location doesn't stick out and its mostly a very clean white that makes it much more pleasant than most of the 60s shite iMO. It has so little positive going for it that its hard to defend and is a missed opportunity but equally I don't see how demolition would improve the area.


I think there are plenty of uglier new builds around in the UK especially in business parks. Even in central Birmingham I think its better than the curved park central building facing out onto lee bank middleway.


I really cant understand the vitriol stirred by this nondescript building but then again I quite like the look of prisons and blank white walls in interiors.

Looks like a mental health asylum or prison. When you go in... YOU NEVER COME OUT! :lol:

Prisoner Cell Block H !

rank. It's like the one in Manchester next to the lowry hotel. I dont know which is worse. Maybe i should post a picture huh...

Prisoner Cell Block H !
Dont compare this to Prisoner Cell Block H.... that was a class show.

Even for a low-budget hotel: 1/10. Disgusting.

That's such a fucking ugly building - completely sterile. I always said that it resembled a huge white sticking plaster. And it does! And good to see that others think the same too... :puke:

Can you imagine what it would look like if it was rotated 45 degrees and UPENDED SIDEWAYS - thus standing taller like a huge soulless slab of NOTHING.... :runaway:

10/10 - This is architecture any city should embrace and strive to build. What a spectacular building, simply stunning. Talk about original, exciting and ground-breaking, I'm just shockedit ever got planning, it's such a daring project. Bravo to the council for letting it go ahead.

90 Degrees Martin!

90 Degrees Martin!

No! I said 45 degrees - this building deserves to be slanting!

Not only would it look utterly stupid but then it would be an unmistakable landmark which would REALLY stick out like a sore thumb! :lol:

I think we need a Martin G Photoshop special on the question of the 90/45 degree!

lol, definitely

i voted 1, but wanted to vote 0


what a fucking embarrassment. i'm pretty sure that most 3 year olds could design a better building.

looking at the "Old Birmingham" thread, and seeing our treasures being demolished for the functional pieces of crap that our city is stereotyped with makes me wonder whether we have learnt anything at all.

i'd rather have a patch of grass on the site rather than that building

^^Did you go to Ranmoor by any chance jimbo?

Atleast Ranmoor's mostly hidden behind trees!!!

I saw the completed thing in full for the first time last week, and I don't quite know how to say this, but it's not that bad....

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a366/robinsonworld/HPIM0431.jpg

it's got more detail that I thought it would, I think it could be that the bands that the windows are shaded slighty darker, and gives the thing a more streamlined shape, and the signs and stuff help break up the prison effect.

Not saying it's a great building, but it's not a 1/10 monster, in a stand and stare pointing and shouting how ugly it is sort of way, If I could retract my 1/10 I'd give it 3 or indeed possibly 4 out of 10.

Did the local B&Q run out of white emulsion?

The people painting the Orion building must have bought all that shade, and then when they went back to get some more Etap had bought all the remainder, which would explain the bizare paint job on Orion...

I agree with you Stephen. That picture does make it look slightly more attractive. Either you're a good photographer or it genuinely is an ok building.

It doesnt look too bad from that angle.

5/10

Words fail me. :ohno:

I've stayed in this hotel. It's not as bad inside. I would have normaly gave it 1/10 but becuase I had such a top not in Brum that night I gave it 3/10

I thought Etap (insert city), this will be a laugh and i wasnt disapointed! Why are these chains allowed to build such drab architecture and this one seems to have taken it to the next level of awfulness. even priosons look better!

I took a few shots walking past it on Bristol Street

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5260/5395175695_5b2a1db8d0_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ell-r-brown/5395175695/)
Etap Hotel, Bristol Street, Birmingham (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ell-r-brown/5395175695/) by ell brown (http://www.flickr.com/people/ell-r-brown/), on Flickr

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5057/5395176213_93d0ee821a_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ell-r-brown/5395176213/)
Etap Hotel, Bristol Street, Birmingham (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ell-r-brown/5395176213/) by ell brown (http://www.flickr.com/people/ell-r-brown/), on Flickr

Everything about it is bad, down to the logo. Bad day at planning office when that was given the approval. I do not see how anyone could rate it 10/10.

Seems out of place for Bristol Street. But the whole area near the Middleway's is changing.

Walked past the demolished St Luke's School - they want someone to develop the site.

I gave it a 10 but only because its the most easiest place in the world to pull a bird, I only went in there to go the toilet n I had 2 women all over me :) I might stay there one night lool

Joshy, you naughty boy, Lol

I no man at first I thought it was a joke or something but I wouldn't be surprised if they were prostitutes tho :L

wow! "Polish style" in Birmingham :0

Who's smart idea was it to put this in the rating section? 1/10

Who's smart idea was it to put this in the rating section? 1/10

Accura4Matalan

Not bad
6

1/10

lol it is a shithole tho haha thoses women where proberly prozzies

Decent building 10/10 for me.

I see the jealous people rate lower.

Horible looking building 2/10

OH DEAR

Not the worst building i've seen 3/10

Looks like the sort of shit they build in continental Europe

I agree