Congrats ;-)
So not surprised.
May I add:
Five Ways
New Street Station
Snow Hill Station
University of Birmingham, Muirhead Tower
And, my favourite street. Welcome to Czechoslowakia, 1969. Though for the full effect you need to see it under a grey sky.
Newhall Street
I don't remember this, but it's spectacular enough to deserve a link anyway.
Above New Street Station
Ugly underpass, lovely lighting. I really liked that place for its incongruity.
I like Birmingham, really, I do. And there's plenty of nice places and buildings there, too. But it really does feature an unusually large agglomeration of unusually ugly buildings - and I'm speaking as someone who grew up near this, and this, and this (minus the trees, of course); and this, and lived a while in a place best characterised by this...
May I add:
Five Ways
New Street Station
Snow Hill Station
University of Birmingham, Muirhead Tower
And, my favourite street. Welcome to Czechoslowakia, 1969. Though for the full effect you need to see it under a grey sky.
Newhall Street
I don't remember this, but it's spectacular enough to deserve a link anyway.
Above New Street Station
Ugly underpass, lovely lighting. I really liked that place for its incongruity.
I like Birmingham, really, I do. And there's plenty of nice places and buildings there, too. But it really does feature an unusually large agglomeration of unusually ugly buildings - and I'm speaking as someone who grew up near this, and this, and this (minus the trees, of course); and this, and lived a while in a place best characterised by this...