Library of Birmingham | Centenary Square | 60m | U/C - Page 119

SimonTheSoundMan · May 5th, 2012, 09:14 PM

Yes.

Typhoon2000 · May 6th, 2012, 06:59 AM

Been there a few times!

SuttonBluenose · May 6th, 2012, 03:27 PM

Is it me or is the library beginning to look like a Liquorice allsort?

http://www.pushpr.co.uk/wp-content/u...8/licorice.jpg

Like the orange one.

sefton66 · May 6th, 2012, 11:47 PM

May site snapshot

feltip · May 8th, 2012, 12:30 AM

Snaps i've got from past month from various vantage points.

http://birminghamcentral.blogspot.co...-may-2012.html

jrawle · May 8th, 2012, 01:38 AM

Is there any word on what's going to happen regarding the paving of the square yet? I notice from one of Feltip's photos that they have removed the plinth for the Forward statue entirely, and replaced it with flat, red tiles. What are they going to do with the large area in front of the library?

ReissOmari · May 8th, 2012, 03:17 AM

Yeah, that paving needs to go, terrible!

Thanks Feltip

Sandblast · May 10th, 2012, 08:42 AM

I wonder if the area in front of the Library will be 'tidy' ready for the arrival of the American & Jamaican athletes (along with the World's media) in July?

Erebus555 · May 10th, 2012, 09:08 AM

I found this image of a similar feature to the 'amphitheatre' being constructed for the library. This is at the Chase Manhattan Bank building.

SuttonBluenose · May 10th, 2012, 06:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Erebus555

I found this image of a similar feature to the 'amphitheatre' being constructed for the library. This is at the Chase Manhattan Bank building.

Yeah, I seem to remember someone posting that on this thread a while back. Does look lovely though!

SuttonBluenose · May 10th, 2012, 07:24 PM

Looking at some of those photos, gee the front of the REP could really do with a facelift.

feltip · May 10th, 2012, 08:30 PM

Well, it is due for a clean linked in with the new glazing. The clean is due later in the year, http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct...Yz5oTSWfRMqE_w

SuttonBluenose · May 10th, 2012, 08:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by feltip

Well, it is due for a clean linked in with the new glazing. The clean is due later in the year, http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct...Yz5oTSWfRMqE_w

It just looks tiny.

jliat · May 11th, 2012, 12:52 PM

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01h75xw

"Jonathan Glancey presents this programme which visits the great game-changing library in Seattle, Europe's 'most modern' library in Deft, a library in Stuttgart which is reviving a whole neighbourhood, Piers Gough's 'super library' for Canada Water in London's Docklands and, of course, the huge new library at the centre of Birmingham which will open next year as the largest public cultural space in Europe."

BhamJim · May 11th, 2012, 03:14 PM

The Chase Manhattan bank amphitheatre looks like it's missing some sea lions!

Brummie Nick · May 11th, 2012, 03:41 PM

Interesting radio programme. Ta for the link.

ReissOmari · May 11th, 2012, 03:47 PM

The REP is starting to look bang tidy with the new glazing!

Sandblast · May 12th, 2012, 12:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ReissOmari

The REP is starting to look bang tidy with the new glazing!

Piccies?!?!

Typhoon2000 · May 12th, 2012, 05:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ReissOmari

The REP is starting to look bang tidy with the new glazing!

And the main body of the library is looking much neater now that the stickers have been removed from the glass barriers.. looks great.

ReissOmari · May 12th, 2012, 12:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Sandblast

Piccies?!?!

I'll get some today if no one beats me to it!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Typhoon2000

And the main body of the library is looking much neater now that the stickers have been removed from the glass barriers.. looks great.

Yeah, its going to look great once the hoardings come down and its all open space again, just over a year left to wait now

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SuttonBluenose All Hail Carl Chinn Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Birmingham/Nottingham Posts: 1,491 Likes (Received): 5	Looking at some of those photos, gee the front of the REP could really do with a facelift. __________________ "It is a well-provisioned ship, this on which we sail through space." Henry George, Progress and Poverty (1879), Book IV Chapter II ********** Please check my Ebay store! http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/mrbluesky9...&_trksid=p3686

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feltip Registered User Join Date: May 2005 Location: Balsall Heath :Birmingham Posts: 11,599 Likes (Received): 48	Well, it is due for a clean linked in with the new glazing. The clean is due later in the year, http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct...Yz5oTSWfRMqE_w __________________ Regeneration - Changing Places and Transforming Lives. \|Birmingham Central Blog \| Feltip Flickr \| Twitter GREATER BIRMINGHAM

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