Birmingham used to be such a derelict and ugly city in the UK and kept on getting declined. But, since 2020, they have been planning to build modern skyscrapers and attractions inside and outside the city. I came back to Birmingham to see how its going but oh my god it has improved. Areas such as Perry Barr, City Centre, Westside and Eastside, Edgbaston and lots more. Honestly its beautiful again!
Fraid not, these are only the skyscrapers, proposed or under construction, there are already at least 60 skyscrapers spread arround the city with out these new buildings.
@@FrenchFry-hi4rn This is just officially an idea, the video is what is proposed for Birmingham, entitled " Birmingham, UK future Skyscrapers - under construction, approved, proposed", and although listed as skyscrapers in the article there are buildings less than 150m mate. Do not know why Manchester was mentioned by someone in this article as a comparison to Brum by some one as I looked it up, there are only 3 tall / Skyscraper type buildings within the City of Manchester, the other 5 are in Greater Manchester which basically is not Manchester, it is the metropolitan council area, which is like saying the West Midlands Metropolitan area is part of Birmingham which it is not, in both cases they are two independent areas. This article is about skyscrapers that are planned or being built within Birmingham City Centre area, not the County of West Midlands. according to Wikipedia Greater Manchester has 8 buildings that are classed as tall buildings, with only 3 of those with in the City of Manchester area, where as Brum is inundated with a lot of tall buildings with in the city that are teetering on the skyscraper height, plus the reason officially there are not many skyscraper buildings in UK cities is stated as cost, type of land these buildings are to be built on and the council ideas, where as New York Staten Island where all the large skyscrapers are built is made up of hard bedrock that can take the relevant foundations.
@@peterwilliamallen1063 I see your point about Manchester, and yes there would only be 3 or 4 potentially classified there as actual skyscrapers, with more to come as there are no height restrictions on Manc. However, as for the geology - you'd be surprised at the marvels of engineering, whilst it may be more expensive to lay deeper foundations to support buildings of great height in a lot of areas across England (considering the surface geology is a lot of tills and sediments of glaciation). I think the main things limiting skyscrapers in UK cities are both the Civil Aviation Authority (including especially within Birmingham and London), Heritage charities and councils who 'protect the skyline' and finally, proper investment into UK cities, outside London - however, not by Chinese or Russian oligarchs or UAE princes looking for a tax write off. Sadly, all of these factors are still an issue and are really stunting proper growth and development in a lot of cities, with I think (Greater) + Manchester/Salford as an exception as it looks to be set to continue to grow the skyline in the years to come.
Birmingham got the BT tower which was the tallest building & because of communication signals no other buildings were allowed to be taller, this has all been now rectified & the green light has been given to reach for the sky, now there will be e revolution in skyscrapers & Birmingham will resemble manhaton or Chicago. I do like the tall buildings & loved the skyline during a recent trip the smoke, of course Birmingham cant compete with london but eventually it will leave Manchester way behind, i really like visiting Birmingham, something it oozes with that Manchester lacks, i dont hate Manchester, i love the whole of Britain, its just Birmingham love, its unparalleled. ❤.
The image shown for exchange square is an earlier design. The building that is now under construction is a different design. The design shown for the Axis 2 tower is actually a building in Manchester that looks nothing like the building proposed for Birmingham.
wow, all basically square box designs with different shades of concrete and glass housings.....no imagination. especially considering there is a building that even appears in the picture of 1 that is immense and far better and was built decades ago
I agree. I'm looking at Manchester and whilst I think overall its outpacing Birmingham in development, which needs to give us a kick up our backside, their buildings also seem to have this same rectangular buildings which could get bland very quickly.
the definition of a skyscraper is a building over 150 meters. Manchester is decades ahead of Birmingham in that realm. Manchester has 200meters deans gate square ,183 meter trinity island and 169 meter. 154 meter the blade and cylinder.150 meter colliders yard. in total Manchester has 8 skyscrapers above 150 meters already constructed and a further 6 skyscrapers above 150 meters currently under construction
Birmingham is further above Sea Level. It's location in the centre of England means that they can't build above a certain height due to planes/aviation.
They now can build buildings in Birmingham to what height they like, it was nothing to do with normal aviation, just to do with Birmingham Airports short Run way and the Telecom Towers old intercommunication equipment, the two things have now been sorted in that the Birmingham Airports Runway has been extended and the Telecom Towers communication Equipment has been updated.
@Kieran H Well as a Brummie of 67 years I can tell you that now yes they can, the building of high rise buildings in Birmingham has nothing to do with Clay soils or Sand Stone ridges all this when building would of been over come by modern building method, the 2 factors for years have been a short Runway at Birmingham Airport which as one of the flight paths was near the City Center that planes were at a low height near the City Center and the Telecom Tower when built had old type Telecommunication equipment which as it was in line with the London BT Tower and one on Cannock Chase it was the main route of TV and phone communications from London to the North so it could not be impeded by buildings taller than it self, over the last 10 years, Birmingham Airports Runway has been significantly extended so Aircraft taking off and Landing are not affected by tall buildings in the City Center plus the flight path into BHX has been altered and the Telecom Tower in Birmingham City Center has had it's communication equipment totally upgraded to digital equipment that wont be effected by tall buildings. So the result now is that high rise buildings are not restricted in Birmingham any more and at least 5 new high rise buildings are under construction now and one of them is going to be the tallest office block in the UK outside of London. So as a Brummie and interested in Geography and History of my great City of Birmingham, I can tell you yes Birmingham is built on Sandstone Hills, there is not much clay around and the Sandstone hills plateau are not the noticeable or steep to effect anything, and if you look at the City outlook from the Licky Hills you do not even notice any thing. The real reason that a number of tall building were cancelled in Birmingham was the last Labour Government would not give the go ahead for there construction, but believe me now, there are at least 5 new very tall building under construction across Birmingham City Center.
@Kieran H Well kieran H, I do not know where you get your information from , because as a Brummie of 66 years and interested in the Geography and History of Birmingham I can tell you from first hand and has nothing to do with the ground Birmingham is built on as if you took the City of Birmingham away you would notice that it is built on 7 sandstone hills and with modern Building methods this would no effect building buildings of any height, the only restrictions in the past were the Labour Governments of the past, the short Runway at BHX which has now been extended allowing planes to get higher when taking off and coming into land on a different flight paths and the final one was the original telecommunication equipment in the Birmingham Telecom Tower that was original analogue and now has been updated to digital equipment now allowing buildings taller than the Telecom Tower to be built, So now the FAA and the Government has quashed that regulation so allowing taller buildings to be built in Birmingham of which at this moment there are around five under construction of which one of them is going to be the tallest Building out side of London. So finally who said there was no demand for buildings in Birmingham to be no higher than 200 m, not Birmingham Council just you I am afraid..
Ok what they building wether it be Birmingham.. Manchester … Leeds…High rise yes…. High rents yes….This is not going to solve housing problems for the average earner….No good building glitzy towers if no one can afford to buy them or rent them….It’s ok having tall towers people can boast on about in city centers…. But most of the city lies outside the center and are generally neglected dumps which fuel poor housing and social inequality. These are the areas city councils should be investing in not high end white elephants
You need to drive down Chester road from Salford Quays and the rethink your remarks. Manchester is in another league to Birmingham and in ten years time, it will be world class.
@@paulwild3676 Yes Manchester is in the crap league compared to Birmingham, what you do not understand these buildings that are featured in Birmingham are with in the City Center of Birmingham, Salford Keys is in Greater Manchester which basically is not the City of Manchester, it is the City of Salford in Greater Manchester. it is like saying if there were the tallest office block in the UK built in the City Of Coventry as Coventry is a part of the West Midlands it would be classed as in Birmingham.
@@peterwilliamallen1063 Hardly, Salford is the fanbase of Manchester United. It is to Manchester what Southwark is to the banking district of London. Nobody in Coventry regards themselves as connected to Birmingham.Coventry is a completely separate entity and not connected by a Metro to Birmingham as Salford Quays is to Central Manchester.
@@paulwild3676 Just because the City of Salford is a Manchester United fan base does not make the City of Salford a part of the City of Manchester, they are two separate Cities in one Metropolitan Area known as Greater Manchester Metropolitan County which is not a City, I did not say that Coventry was a part of Birmingham which is exactly what I was explaining, the City of Coventry is it's own City but is connected to Birmingham in that both Birmingham and Coventry are a part of the West Midlands Conurbation of which Birmingham is the main city and are joined by a high density train service and bus services and will eventually be joined by the West Midlands Metro System, and do not even compare Greater Manchester or any Metro area with London as London has been that way since the 1900's, different thing mate.
As long as I know a skyscraper is a building taller than 90 meters. But you know, in Italy not that much skyscrapers are being built (excluding Milan) and neither there are much. So we tend to call skyscrapers also 70 meters buildings (sometimes even 50 meters buildings). So yeah, I might be completely wrong.
All tall buildings are basically concrete blocks at the beginning, but are changed to good looking buildings in the finishing stage, until you have visited Birmingham you cant don't comment on the buildings because I can assure you they are not just concrete blocks.
Birmingham is a dated city and architecture is very ugly and the city is not a attractive place, still very industrial and people are not progressive or integrated, go outside of city centre and areas are vile and run down people have very cave mentality.
Brian Smith, you comment that Birmingham is a dated City, well have you ever been to Birmingham other than look at pictures, no I don't think you have and people of Birmingham live no different lives to any one in any City in the World. The outskirts are not vile and run down, no more than the East End of London, and suburbs of Paris and New York and we don't have a very Cave Mentality what ever that means, before commenting on a short video try coming to Birmingham and look at it properly, a video lasting 1 min 47 sec doesn't show much of a City.
@@peterwilliamallen1063 Stop comparing Birmingham to London and other cities Birmingham is very undeveloped and has been neglected by Birmingham City council for decades its only the city is living with the times and as for aread of Birmingham have you seen how segregated and divided people seem no one integrates and areas are racist and people choose not to integrate one of the most segregated cities in the UK the civil are the cause of segregating areas lots of divisions and small minded people, go into many areas of Birmingham they are ghettos with poverty, drugs and no wealth what's soever most live on the social and dont work you wonder why there is so much poverty and crime is out of control, like it or not Birmingham and the West Midlands is looked down upon. London has always been progressive and modern city as its attracts people from all over the world, Birmingham cannot compete with London never that's why it's the second boring city.
@@bartomiejsaweczko6152 shut up bro manchester city Centre and liverpool city Centre is like 2 shop and birmingham has better skyline then liverpool and liverpool has ocean that why its atractivr and manchester only has 4 towers are tall the other are like 50 meter
This thing about sky line, its about time they cleaned up the poor housing in that town, deport the criminals and start making things or inventing. The place looks more like Afghanistan than a english town. And them rail arches need looking after instead of building more glass houses.
Birmingham used to be such a derelict and ugly city in the UK and kept on getting declined. But, since 2020, they have been planning to build modern skyscrapers and attractions inside and outside the city. I came back to Birmingham to see how its going but oh my god it has improved. Areas such as Perry Barr, City Centre, Westside and Eastside, Edgbaston and lots more. Honestly its beautiful again!
Birmingham seems to be lagging badly behind Manchester.
Unfortunately.
Fraid not, these are only the skyscrapers, proposed or under construction, there are already at least 60 skyscrapers spread arround the city with out these new buildings.
@@peterwilliamallen1063 skyscrapers are usually classified as buildings over 150 m mate, Birmingham doesn't have many that are
@@FrenchFry-hi4rn This is just officially an idea, the video is what is proposed for Birmingham, entitled " Birmingham, UK future Skyscrapers - under construction, approved, proposed", and although listed as skyscrapers in the article there are buildings less than 150m mate. Do not know why Manchester was mentioned by someone in this article as a comparison to Brum by some one as I looked it up, there are only 3 tall / Skyscraper type buildings within the City of Manchester, the other 5 are in Greater Manchester which basically is not Manchester, it is the metropolitan council area, which is like saying the West Midlands Metropolitan area is part of Birmingham which it is not, in both cases they are two independent areas. This article is about skyscrapers that are planned or being built within Birmingham City Centre area, not the County of West Midlands. according to Wikipedia Greater Manchester has 8 buildings that are classed as tall buildings, with only 3 of those with in the City of Manchester area, where as Brum is inundated with a lot of tall buildings with in the city that are teetering on the skyscraper height, plus the reason officially there are not many skyscraper buildings in UK cities is stated as cost, type of land these buildings are to be built on and the council ideas, where as New York Staten Island where all the large skyscrapers are built is made up of hard bedrock that can take the relevant foundations.
@@peterwilliamallen1063 I see your point about Manchester, and yes there would only be 3 or 4 potentially classified there as actual skyscrapers, with more to come as there are no height restrictions on Manc. However, as for the geology - you'd be surprised at the marvels of engineering, whilst it may be more expensive to lay deeper foundations to support buildings of great height in a lot of areas across England (considering the surface geology is a lot of tills and sediments of glaciation). I think the main things limiting skyscrapers in UK cities are both the Civil Aviation Authority (including especially within Birmingham and London), Heritage charities and councils who 'protect the skyline' and finally, proper investment into UK cities, outside London - however, not by Chinese or Russian oligarchs or UAE princes looking for a tax write off. Sadly, all of these factors are still an issue and are really stunting proper growth and development in a lot of cities, with I think (Greater) + Manchester/Salford as an exception as it looks to be set to continue to grow the skyline in the years to come.
Axis tower in Manchester and is already built, bit of an odd inclusion there.
Birmingham got the BT tower which was the tallest building & because of communication signals no other buildings were allowed to be taller, this has all been now rectified & the green light has been given to reach for the sky, now there will be e revolution in skyscrapers & Birmingham will resemble manhaton or Chicago. I do like the tall buildings & loved the skyline during a recent trip the smoke, of course Birmingham cant compete with london but eventually it will leave Manchester way behind, i really like visiting Birmingham, something it oozes with that Manchester lacks, i dont hate Manchester, i love the whole of Britain, its just Birmingham love, its unparalleled. ❤.
The image shown for exchange square is an earlier design. The building that is now under construction is a different design. The design shown for the Axis 2 tower is actually a building in Manchester that looks nothing like the building proposed for Birmingham.
I checked on google the is over 10 tower under construction over 100 meters in birmingham
wow, all basically square box designs with different shades of concrete and glass housings.....no imagination. especially considering there is a building that even appears in the picture of 1 that is immense and far better and was built decades ago
I agree. I'm looking at Manchester and whilst I think overall its outpacing Birmingham in development, which needs to give us a kick up our backside, their buildings also seem to have this same rectangular buildings which could get bland very quickly.
The Octagon is unique and tasteful.
Needs a few more above 150m to make it a proper skyline
Fuck this- just rebuild the Mr Egg Chip Shop and Birmingham will regain it’s former glory
Birmingham is not in a race with Manchester, lets just get this straight yeh, different cities, different animals!
The question is who benefits? What are the socioeconomic implications?
The developers benefit. Period.
2one2 and mercian are the same
the definition of a skyscraper is a building over 150 meters. Manchester is decades ahead of Birmingham in that realm. Manchester has 200meters deans gate square ,183 meter trinity island and 169 meter. 154 meter the blade and cylinder.150 meter colliders yard. in total Manchester has 8 skyscrapers above 150 meters already constructed and a further 6 skyscrapers above 150 meters currently under construction
Yeah
Birmingham is further above Sea Level. It's location in the centre of England means that they can't build above a certain height due to planes/aviation.
They now can build buildings in Birmingham to what height they like, it was nothing to do with normal aviation, just to do with Birmingham Airports short Run way and the Telecom Towers old intercommunication equipment, the two things have now been sorted in that the Birmingham Airports Runway has been extended and the Telecom Towers communication Equipment has been updated.
@Kieran H Well as a Brummie of 67 years I can tell you that now yes they can, the building of high rise buildings in Birmingham has nothing to do with Clay soils or Sand Stone ridges all this when building would of been over come by modern building method, the 2 factors for years have been a short Runway at Birmingham Airport which as one of the flight paths was near the City Center that planes were at a low height near the City Center and the Telecom Tower when built had old type Telecommunication equipment which as it was in line with the London BT Tower and one on Cannock Chase it was the main route of TV and phone communications from London to the North so it could not be impeded by buildings taller than it self, over the last 10 years, Birmingham Airports Runway has been significantly extended so Aircraft taking off and Landing are not affected by tall buildings in the City Center plus the flight path into BHX has been altered and the Telecom Tower in Birmingham City Center has had it's communication equipment totally upgraded to digital equipment that wont be effected by tall buildings. So the result now is that high rise buildings are not restricted in Birmingham any more and at least 5 new high rise buildings are under construction now and one of them is going to be the tallest office block in the UK outside of London.
So as a Brummie and interested in Geography and History of my great City of Birmingham, I can tell you yes Birmingham is built on Sandstone Hills, there is not much clay around and the Sandstone hills plateau are not the noticeable or steep to effect anything, and if you look at the City outlook from the Licky Hills you do not even notice any thing. The real reason that a number of tall building were cancelled in Birmingham was the last Labour Government would not give the go ahead for there construction, but believe me now, there are at least 5 new very tall building under construction across Birmingham City Center.
@Kieran H Well kieran H, I do not know where you get your information from , because as a Brummie of 66 years and interested in the Geography and History of Birmingham I can tell you from first hand and has nothing to do with the ground Birmingham is built on as if you took the City of Birmingham away you would notice that it is built on 7 sandstone hills and with modern Building methods this would no effect building buildings of any height, the only restrictions in the past were the Labour Governments of the past, the short Runway at BHX which has now been extended allowing planes to get higher when taking off and coming into land on a different flight paths and the final one was the original telecommunication equipment in the Birmingham Telecom Tower that was original analogue and now has been updated to digital equipment now allowing buildings taller than the Telecom Tower to be built, So now the FAA and the Government has quashed that regulation so allowing taller buildings to be built in Birmingham of which at this moment there are around five under construction of which one of them is going to be the tallest Building out side of London.
So finally who said there was no demand for buildings in Birmingham to be no higher than 200 m, not Birmingham Council just you I am afraid..
Ok what they building wether it be Birmingham.. Manchester … Leeds…High rise yes…. High rents yes….This is not going to solve housing problems for the average earner….No good building glitzy towers if no one can afford to buy them or rent them….It’s ok having tall towers people can boast on about in city centers…. But most of the city lies outside the center and are generally neglected dumps which fuel poor housing and social inequality. These are the areas city councils should be investing in not high end white elephants
@Peter William Allen what ever you are saying it make no sense
Birmingham will deffo have a better skyline than Manc in 10 yrs time!!!!
You need to drive down Chester road from Salford Quays and the rethink your remarks. Manchester is in another league to Birmingham and in ten years time, it will be world class.
@@paulwild3676 i will wait and see
@@paulwild3676 Yes Manchester is in the crap league compared to Birmingham, what you do not understand these buildings that are featured in Birmingham are with in the City Center of Birmingham, Salford Keys is in Greater Manchester which basically is not the City of Manchester, it is the City of Salford in Greater Manchester. it is like saying if there were the tallest office block in the UK built in the City Of Coventry as Coventry is a part of the West Midlands it would be classed as in Birmingham.
@@peterwilliamallen1063 Hardly, Salford is the fanbase of Manchester United. It is to Manchester what Southwark is to the banking district of London. Nobody in Coventry regards themselves as connected to Birmingham.Coventry is a completely separate entity and not connected by a Metro to Birmingham as Salford Quays is to Central Manchester.
@@paulwild3676 Just because the City of Salford is a Manchester United fan base does not make the City of Salford a part of the City of Manchester, they are two separate Cities in one Metropolitan Area known as Greater Manchester Metropolitan County which is not a City, I did not say that Coventry was a part of Birmingham which is exactly what I was explaining, the City of Coventry is it's own City but is connected to Birmingham in that both Birmingham and Coventry are a part of the West Midlands Conurbation of which Birmingham is the main city and are joined by a high density train service and bus services and will eventually be joined by the West Midlands Metro System, and do not even compare Greater Manchester or any Metro area with London as London has been that way since the 1900's, different thing mate.
Borrrrinnggg... out all of the architects we have in the UK, that is the best they could come up with?
Shut up
it's down to viability.
Some of these are not skyscrapers. But hey I still like it
As long as I know a skyscraper is a building taller than 90 meters. But you know, in Italy not that much skyscrapers are being built (excluding Milan) and neither there are much. So we tend to call skyscrapers also 70 meters buildings (sometimes even 50 meters buildings). So yeah, I might be completely wrong.
I personally think in modern standards a skyscraper is anything over 150m
That’s true. A skyscraper is a building above 150 meters, 100 to 150 meters is just a tall building.
Hey i like they are finnaly building a 193 meter tower and 160 meter tower
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When hs2 arrives, bye bye Manchester. The won’t build it any further than Brum
A lot of those are just concrete blocks. If you're going through the trouble of building skyscrapers at least make them look good.
All tall buildings are basically concrete blocks at the beginning, but are changed to good looking buildings in the finishing stage, until you have visited Birmingham you cant don't comment on the buildings because I can assure you they are not just concrete blocks.
Axis is not in Birmingham
It is it is in Holliday Street in Birmingham
Birmingham is a dated city and architecture is very ugly and the city is not a attractive place, still very industrial and people are not progressive or integrated, go outside of city centre and areas are vile and run down people have very cave mentality.
Brian Smith, you comment that Birmingham is a dated City, well have you ever been to Birmingham other than look at pictures, no I don't think you have and people of Birmingham live no different lives to any one in any City in the World. The outskirts are not vile and run down, no more than the East End of London, and suburbs of Paris and New York and we don't have a very Cave Mentality what ever that means, before commenting on a short video try coming to Birmingham and look at it properly, a video lasting 1 min 47 sec doesn't show much of a City.
@@peterwilliamallen1063 Stop comparing Birmingham to London and other cities Birmingham is very undeveloped and has been neglected by Birmingham City council for decades its only the city is living with the times and as for aread of Birmingham have you seen how segregated and divided people seem no one integrates and areas are racist and people choose not to integrate one of the most segregated cities in the UK the civil are the cause of segregating areas lots of divisions and small minded people, go into many areas of Birmingham they are ghettos with poverty, drugs and no wealth what's soever most live on the social and dont work you wonder why there is so much poverty and crime is out of control, like it or not Birmingham and the West Midlands is looked down upon. London has always been progressive and modern city as its attracts people from all over the world, Birmingham cannot compete with London never that's why it's the second boring city.
@@brainsmith3931 I agree with You . Birmingham can't even compete with Manchester or Liverpool....
@@bartomiejsaweczko6152 lol it’s bigger than both of them u mug
@@bartomiejsaweczko6152 shut up bro manchester city Centre and liverpool city Centre is like 2 shop and birmingham has better skyline then liverpool and liverpool has ocean that why its atractivr and manchester only has 4 towers are tall the other are like 50 meter
This thing about sky line, its about time they cleaned up the poor housing in that town, deport the criminals and start making things or inventing. The place looks more like Afghanistan than a english town. And them rail arches need looking after instead of building more glass houses.