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Birmingham, England
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9 months
Stop making everything grey developers I beg you
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3 months
Perks of working in the Black Country
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1 year
Happy World Town Planning Day but specifically to the people who post on LinkedIn about how proud they are to work for companies that do this
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2 years
Someone who lives near my parents has put plastic grass on the Council verge?!!
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2 years
LONG LIVE THE LTN
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2 years
Best city in the UK
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3 years
You're stunning Birmingham 🌇
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9 months
Birmingham could’ve set a great example here, I’m gutted
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3 years
This section of Corporation Street could be quite nice if people cared about it
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2 years
Centenary Square is the busiest it's ever been? 🐂
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2 years
We've closed a road for a massive gorilla, I love this city
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8 months
I moved to Birmingham 3 and a bit years ago and part of that decision was down to the feeling this city gave me which I can’t really put into words but it’s just *there*. It’s like the feeling we all had when the Commonwealth Games was on -
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1 year
Current scenes in KH👏
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8 months
We might be losing everything but we do have the world’s tallest octagonal purely residential octagonal tower tower
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2 years
Back at @103ColmoreRow and it looks like a box of Crayola has exploded over everything
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2 years
Shed a few tears, I'm not a Brummie but I am SO proud of this city and love that I can call it home 🥹
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2 years
All of that derelict land... I wonder what temporary use could've gone there
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4 months
Yes. I don’t drive so I walk everywhere (when I’m not on public transport) and let me tell you it’s horrible to be a pedestrian in some parts of this city. I would also love to cycle but I’m too scared, and I worry for the brave people who do!!!
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Worth emphasizing that this is a matter of deliberate policy. There are so many people in this great city who want to get around by walking and wheeling, but are rightly reluctant because our roads have been designed to endanger people without cars.
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2 years
It's even worse in person
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1 year
Safe streets now.
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8 months
It’s a shame that there’s no redundant rail infrastructure in the middle of Birmingham we could do this with :)
@MPrinParr
Martin Prince-Parrott RIBA FRSA (🇬🇧/acc)
8 months
Is the New York High-line the coolest retrofit example? 💰 Generates ~$1B for the city 🌳 Much needed green space 📈 Added 35-50% to existing real estate values
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8 months
I have always enjoyed this street :(
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5 months
Starstruck
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2 years
This has tipped me over the edge
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1 year
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2 years
perch is open :)
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2 years
Jewellery Quarter sunset
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5 months
WEEDS!
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1 year
OBSESSED that Captain Tom’s family tried to get their spa building through the Council’s heritage assessment by saying that it was required for charitable purposes including presentations to the press???
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BBC News (UK)
1 year
Captain Tom's family lose spa planning appeal
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ON TOP OF THE WORLD’S TALLEST OCTAGONAL PURELY RESIDENTIAL OCTAGONAL TOWER TOWER
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8 months
Walking to New Street before 7am and it’s actually light outside I might cry
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2 years
Digbeth
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11 months
Imagine having to wait 40 mins for a bus to turn up in the 2nd biggest city in the country 🤡
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2 years
I need a bar in Birmingham that exclusively plays GTA V radio stations
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2 years
In case anyone forgot
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1 year
I forgot that you can’t use a zebra crossing in Birmingham without fearing for your life
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2 years
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9 months
So what are we knocking down next?
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1 year
Apparently I missed the INSANE claim that Captain Tom’s walking laps have added historical value to the site
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1 year
A good shopfront on New Street??? I could cry
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8 months
I went on a tour around some of these flats and it was one of the best things I’ve ever done in London
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@LukeDyks
Dr Dyks 🇺🇦
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No conversation of interwar London apartment blocks is complete without my favourite (and the favourite of Soviet spies), the Isokon building, built 1933.
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2 years
Lockdown January 2021 ➡️ Commonwealth Games July 2022
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7 months
Back in the UK after a long weekend in Barcelona, thoughts and prayers are appreciated at this time
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8 months
The train to Birmingham I’m on which is currently sat in Euston not moving has been boarded IN ERROR and it doesn’t have a driver? SORRY
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7 months
It’s sitting outside weather
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1 year
I found a roll of undeveloped film I’d forgotten about and the photos have just come back
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9 months
Did everyone I follow on here visit University Station today?
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8 months
I know we have discussed this before but it is mad that you can get back to Birmingham from London this much later on a weeknight compared to the weekend
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2 years
Love this for her
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3 months
Everyone must do the @BhamRoundhouse Hidden Birmingham kayak tour 🦆
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2 years
More grass tram tracks please
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9 months
Went to uni in Cov for 3 years & didn’t think that much of this at the time
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9 months
This is what was submitted and approved 🤷‍♀️
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9 months
Stop making everything grey developers I beg you
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8 months
The funniest part is I moved here to study Urban Planning at UoB because I thought Birmingham was doing a lot of interesting stuff and had a good vision. Laughable now
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Waterloo Street has undergone quite the transformation! @ColmoreBID
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2 years
Had to attend planning committee in the Black Country, so naturally
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2 years
Let's put this statue back in time for the Games... but completely ruin its setting with these hoardings
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2 years
The more I try to cross the road here the more I hate it
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1 year
Another fave
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7 months
As much as I appreciate my male friends with similar interests I would love to find more women who like infrastructure/transport/buildings etc. outside of work! Where are you :(
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5 months
As much as I might not want to vote for Shabana personally, Labour is the best option here for keeping the independent out. PLEASE! USE! YOUR! BRAIN!
@LeftieStats
Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️
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🚨 New Birmingham Ladywood estimate has Akhmed Yakoob (IND) just behind Shabana Mahmood (LAB). 🔴 LAB 37% (-44) ⚪️ IND 31% (+31) <- @Akhmedyakoob1 🟢 GRN 11% (+9) 🟣 REF 10% (+8) 🔵 CON 7% (-3) Estimate via @ElectCalculus , 5-13 June (+/- vs 2019)
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1 year
A rare look inside flats at @IsokonGallery this morning
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1 year
Well that lasted long
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4 months
This material isn’t ageing very well 😬
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1 year
This is so disappointing
@C20Society
C20 Society
1 year
⚠️BREAKING NEWS // Birmingham City Council's planning committee have just approved plans for the demolition of Smallbrook Ringway Centre. Another devastating assault on the city's post-war heritage and a failure of imagination to not renew and repurpose this landmark building.
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3 years
@WorldBollard beautiful pink bollards
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9 months
Telegraph Hotel, Coventry 👌
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1 year
#BeBoldBeBham is bullshit
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2 years
What a day for it
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2 years
Couldn’t have picked a bigger screen for Centenary Square
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2 years
Merry Christmas
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2 years
if the CWG Opening Ceremony doesn't involve these two going head to head then an opportunity has been missed
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2 years
Nice view
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9 months
@GailCol43008975 @ichoosemag This is what got approved!
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2 years
This Viennese bollard needs a little help @WorldBollard
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7 months
For a minute I thought Andy Street was going to endorse removing traffic from the A38. Of course it was too good to be true.
@andy4wm
Andy Street
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I’m pledging to launch an international architectural competition to build a NEW BRIDGE connecting the Jewellery Quarter & Colmore Row 🌉 The link between two of Brum’s best areas isn’t good enough, we have to deliver an accessible link that celebrates the city’s heritage 🏗️
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2 years
Broad Street bus
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2 years
Brum, this is how you fix the middle ring road.
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5 months
Moseley Bog
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1 year
@JohnOCo25758506 I saw someone say they enjoy using good urban design to maximise the potential of the sites they develop - they produce this sort of crap
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3 years
Hope we get more tables out here again this year 🤞
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Phwoar
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8 months
- I think a lot of it comes from our built environment and the places that are uniquely Brum, perhaps like Station Street, and it’s like the Council will just let developers tear that character away for any old crap now
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2 years
Always one of the most reliable lunches in Birmingham
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A wholesome day out on the Severn Valley Railway
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1 year
Why is Manchester so insecure
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6 months
This part of Wolves feels a bit JQ
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1 year
There he is
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5 months
I ❤️ COPENHAGEN
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2 years
Hope these stay in Grand Central forever @staceybarnfield
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2 years
Soon
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11 months
The best thing about getting the train to Moor Street during the festive period
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8 months
Covent Garden if it was good
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6 months
AURORA IN BIRMINGHAM!
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2 years
Team lunch at Rudy’s and someone in my team thinks this is a poached egg :)
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2 years
On my own so being able to get the tram home from Broad Street right now is a blessing
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1 year
Fed up with this behaviour on our streets being celebrated on TikTok (and being recommended to me, thanks algorithm)
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2 years
Imagine getting off the train at 'Stirchley' and realising you have to walk 15 mins to caneat for brunch... 7 minute eggs? More like 15 minute eggs. #PICKPINEAPPLE
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I Choose Birmingham
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2 years
Victoria Square looks so good. If you didn’t know what the paving was like before you’d think that it’s always been like this?
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