A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
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Howard Watson applauds Mecanoo's designs for a new library in Birmingham and the aim to bring coherence to the city centre, but questions the destruction of the nearby Central Library, an unusual Brutalist building by John Madin, which is to make way for a further retail/leisure scheme. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
10.1002/ad.1028.abs
Howard Watson applauds Mecanoo's designs for a new library in Birmingham and the aim to bring coherence to the city centre, but questions the destruction of the nearby Central Library, an unusual Brutalist building by John Madin, which is to make way for a further retail/leisure scheme. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Library of Birmingham
Watson, Howard (author)
Architectural Design ; 80 ; 142-143
2010-01-01
2 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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