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Birmingham, the UK's second city.


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LINK TO FULL LIST OF DEVELOPMENTS

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=294878

Towers 90m+
Blue = Approved
Red = Proposed
Black = Built
Green = U/C

1. Arena Central - 187m (245m)
2. The Pinnacle - 175m
3. BT Tower - 152m
4. Tramps Tower - 137m (142m)
5. Holloway Circus Tower - 122m (130m)
6. Martineau Galleries - 110m
7. Alpha Tower - 100m
8. Chamberlain Clock Tower - 100m
9. Orion - 92m
10. City Park Gate - 90m (100m)
11. Senitnel 1 - 90m
12. Sentinel 2 - 90m
13. Park Central Tower - 90m

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u276/72bluebus/brum08-07.jpg

Population: 990,000
Tallest Building: Holloway Circus Tower - 122m
Famous Sons/Daughters: Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne, Cat Deeley, JRR Tolkien, Neville Chamberlain.
Claims To fame: Cadburys, Lord of the Rings, Heavy Metal

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Towers:

VTP - 200m (Proposed)
Regal - 180m (Pre-Planning)
Natwest Tower - 163m (Approved)
BT Tower - 152m (Built)
V Tower - 152m (Approved - Enabling)
SnowHill - 138m (U/C - Delayed)
BST - 133m (Approved)
New Street 1 - 130m (Approved)
New Street 2 - 130m (Approved)
Holloway Circus Tower -122m (Built)
Snowhill Plaza - 118m (Approved)
Martineau Galleries - 110m (Pre-Planning)
Masshouse - 104m (Pre-Planning)
Alpha Tower - 100m. (Built)

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City's skyscraper theme park plan

A £60m skyscraper with theme park rides and a restaurant at the top could be built in Birmingham.

The 175m (574ft) Birmingham Pinnacle will be built next to Millennium Point, if the city council approves the plans.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41481000/jpg/_41481000_pinnacle.jpg

Rides include a high level seesaw, a freefall parachute drop, a bungee drop and a 50-passenger gyro ride.

The building would be the Midlands' tallest, the first of its kind in Europe and would resemble the Stratosphere tower in Las Vegas.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/4840984.stm

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Ill Post more when they happen, but the full list including alot more renders of projects in the city, check out the link at the top of the page. Thanks.

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2 more 130m (427ft) towers have been proposed at New Street Station

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132m Broad Street redesign. Work to start Winter 2006.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42006000/jpg/_42006450_broadstview203l.jpg

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This needs a big recap.

The tallest regional tower outside London may be in Birmingham aswell with a major mixed-use scheme down Broad Street. Technically it already is in the VTP but most of that is theme-park.

http://www.vtp200.com/overview.php

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It looks similar to Oklahoma City

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A little. Oklahoma's skyline though is alot more compact which I prefer. It'll take Birmingham a little while to achieve that as the city is quite spread out. The skyline stretched almost 2 miles which is pretty huge considering. The city does have over a dozen planned 100m+ towers but unfortunately due to the credit crunch our new tallest has seized construction for the time being. Podium has been done and the lobby has been completed but now they have switched thier battention to the 2nd 75m tall Office block instead of the twin residential, hotel tower scheme.

http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/7137/brum1ll3.png

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