Stirling Prize winners back bid to save Birmingham landmark from wrecking ball

By Jim Dunton2022-12-05T07:00:00

Source: Mac McCreery

Campaign and rival plans come as Corstorphine & Wright submits towers scheme

Three winners of the most prestigious prize in British architecture have lent their names to a campaign to save a brutalist landmark in Birmingham city centre that faces demolition to make way for 2.300-home proposals designed by Corstorphine & Wright.

James Roberts’ 1960s Ringway Centre on Smallbrook Queensway is one of the few remaining examples of Birmingham brutalism, and was completed five years before Roberts’ most famous work: the grade II-listed Rotunda.

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