[woodhousen]

1 Arena Central
City Center

Height: 38m | Floors: 7 | Client/Architects: Arena Central Developments / Make Architects

Links: http://arena-central.com/

• 1 Arena Central is a first choice location for either a single occupier seeking a prominent HQ location or multiple tenants, with flexible and easily sub-divisible floorplates supporting the delivery of a number of office layouts.
  
  Alongside its 135,000 sq ft of Grade A offices – with typical floorplates of 21,000 sq ft – 1 Arena Central offers 5,000 sq ft of high quality retail space with an inset terrace facing out towards Centenary Square.
  
  The upper floors have been designed to accommodate a variety of occupier requirements, with a flexible layout arranged around a central lift core and two perimeter stair cores, with a balcony and terrace on the top floor.
  
  The exterior of 1 Arena Central has been designed to create an impactful and timeless facade with alternating glazed and fully opaque panels creating a tessellated, chequerboard effect around the building.
  
  The basement provides 68 car parking spaces, alongside 54 secure cycle spaces with lockers and showers. Funding is currently being sought to develop 1 Arena Central on a speculative basis.

• Current status: Approved / Site Prep

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[Harborne Ultimatum]

7-8 storey office building. Interesting, but we expect bigger things from this site.

 

[U475 Foxtrot]

I like how the facade is inspired by Bridget Riley

 

[feltip]

Some images and information from the Design and Access documents (2014/04004/PA):

 

[Our Man In Caracas]

So, from the section at the end, 'Masterplan Revision', office D sounds the tallest Ground + 20 full office levels, 21,945 sqm; Residential E2 the largest at 24,095sqm. For D, it says: max height + 220.8 but I don't know how to interpret that; could somebody explain?

 

[woodhousen]

seems we're also in for some 20 storey 60m residential blocks here too.... they are really going for some density... similar height to the library building

also with a 20 storey 80m office building, though with plant id expect that to rise a little... the average floor to floor height for A grade offices is 4.5m... so 20 x 4.5m is circa 90m.... similar height to orion and the sentinals...

 

[Birmingham]

Nice and dense city core! This a paradise circus would push Birmingham up a league!

 

[morestoreysplease]

Great stuff - just need to fast-track it now.......

 

[sefton66]

So, from the section at the end, 'Masterplan Revision', office D sounds the tallest Ground + 20 full office levels, 21,945 sqm; Residential E2 the largest at 24,095sqm. For D, it says: max height + 220.8 but I don't know how to interpret that; could somebody explain?

Floor height is at +140 ish so 80m then

 

[LocalVernacular]

Good to see movement on this. With quality materials this should look quite respectable. I'd be interested to see a view from Centenary Way to see how the block impacts the view of the Hyatt & ICC.

Also, with Arena Central Sq surrounded by 20 storey buildings, there'll be little opportunity to sit outside in the sun...?

Let's hope they get a spade in the ground this time.

 

[Mercurius]

Brilliant images and you can tell they have spent a fair amount of work on this.

Excellent! Exciting times for AC, please come to fruition!

 

[ellbrown]

So when will the House of Sport get demolished then?







It was first built in 1951.

 

[sploder]

The only thing I'm worried about are old tv studios behind. Will businesses really want that next door? Or maybe it will all get demolished before it's complete.

 

[ReissOmari]

What is the latest on Holiday Inn anyway?

 

[sploder]

Planning permission is already in place for the delivery of a brand new, 200-bedroom Holiday Inn Express hotel, to be developed by Centre Island Ltd, owners of the adjacent Crown Plaza Hotel.

Site clearance is already underway, with a redundant multi-storey car park on the corner of Holliday Street and Bridge Street having been demolished to make way for the hotel, construction on which is due to start imminently, ready for occupancy in 2016

 

[ReissOmari]

The only thing I'm worried about are old tv studios behind. Will businesses really want that next door? Or maybe it will all get demolished before it's complete.

Well looking at the pictures below, looks like the TV studios and everything else will be demolished before 1 Arena Central even starts. Also, Holiday Inn should be built before the Studios are demolished

 

[djay]

The only thing I'm worried about are old tv studios behind. Will businesses really want that next door? Or maybe it will all get demolished before it's complete.

The public realm will be in pace i would have thought before this building is finished. Not seen an app for the landscaping through so this detail would probably be include in the app for this building. We might see the two being done at the same time.

 

[ellbrown]

Ok took this one for the limo (think BCU had a graduation day at Symphony Hall), but you can see the site behind it (to the left of the Hyatt Hotel)

 

[nigeman]

Well looking at the pictures below, looks like the TV studios and everything else will be demolished before 1 Arena Central even starts. Also, Holiday Inn should be built before the Studios are demolished

^^
That would be two years away RO, I'm pretty sure the whole site clearance was earmarked for autumn this year?

 

[Qoasis777]

Ok took this one for the limo (think BCU had a graduation day at Symphony Hall), but you can see the site behind it (to the left of the Hyatt Hotel) https://flic.kr/p/nXTzWt

It was The Open University! I had mine there a few years ago, great venue for a graduation