Brindleyplace
Brindleyplace is a project of urban renewal in Birmingham city center on the site of the old factory and channel systems. It is often mistakenly written Brindley Place, after a street located there, which is also named after the canal engineer James Brindley of the 18th century.
Brindleyplace has shops, bars, restaurants but also to have educational institutions, such as the National Sea Life Centre. It has a branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland, the radio station BRMB and the renowned art gallery Ikon Gallery. The total project comprises 69,000 m² in mixed-use, and is considered the most comprehensive revitalization project in the UK. Adjacent, but on the other side of the Birmingham Canal Network channel is the International Convention Centre.
History
With the decline of British industry in the 1970s, the factories were closed in the area of today's Brindleyplace. The result was decades of decay. Similar to other water-related industrial and port zones, there were also these waterfront in the center of the created by James Brindley Narrowboat - channel system, the chance of the tertiary conversion. The plans of the City Council dated from the 1980s. The success with the International Convention Centre, Birmingham, the Symphony Hall and the National Indoor Arena encouraged the city government in their plans. The company Merlin (later replaced by Rosehaugh ) and Shearwater occurred as the first investors. Rosehaugh 1990 paid 26 million pounds for the area. Rosehaugh also revised the retail-oriented concept of Merlin towards more office space and residential land use. In 1992, the detailed concept, but came Rosebaugh in view of the real estate crisis in the early 1990s in extreme financial difficulties and was insolvent. The project was ultimately adopted and implemented in 1993 by the company Argent. In 1995, the real estate crisis was overcome and the land value again came to over £ 25 million.
Architecture
The master plan was created by the postmodern oriented architects Terry Farrell, however, has been taken on it to achieve through integration of various architects structural diversity. In part, existing buildings were rebuilt - as the Ikon Gallery was once a Victorian school.