• Could this be the end for Birmingham’s brutalist Ringway Centre?

  • Sep 19 2024
  • Length: 31 mins
  • Podcast

Could this be the end for Birmingham’s brutalist Ringway Centre?

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  • This week Merlin Fulcher is joined by Ewan Harrison, a lecturer in Architectural Studies at the University of Manchester.


    Campaigners lose bid to save Birmingham’s brutalist Ringway Centre // Sadiq Khan wins new powers to pedestrianise Oxford Street // Listing bid for Portsmouth Civic Offices blocked // And an abandoned leisure centre in West Yorkshire reimagined as a state-of-the-art skate park


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