{"id":10098,"date":"2012-11-07T10:53:55","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T10:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=10098"},"modified":"2012-11-07T10:53:55","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T10:53:55","slug":"the-selfridges-building-birmingham-11-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/the-selfridges-building-birmingham-11-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"The Selfridges Building, Birmingham &#8211; 11 photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10099\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/the-selfridges-building-birmingham-11-photos\/birmingham-selfridges-bullring-02\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/birmingham-selfridges-bullring-02.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"620,465\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"The Selfridges Building, Birmingham &amp;#8211; 11 photos\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/birmingham-selfridges-bullring-02.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10099\" title=\"The Selfridges Building, Birmingham - 11 photos\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/birmingham-selfridges-bullring-02.jpg\" alt=\"The Selfridges Building, Birmingham - 11 photos\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/birmingham-selfridges-bullring-02.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/birmingham-selfridges-bullring-02-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Completed in 2003 at a cost of \u00a360 million, the Selfridges Building in Birmingham remains one of my\u00a0favourite\u00a0modern\u00a0buildings.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/birmingham-selfridges-bullring-01.jpg\" alt=\"The Selfridges Building, Birmingham - 11 photos\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Forming part of the \u00a0Bullring Shopping Centre and housing Selfridges Department Store, the building was designed by architecture firm Future Systems and\u00a0features\u00a0a\u00a0steel framework with sprayed concrete facade.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/birmingham-selfridges-bullring-03.jpg\" alt=\"The Selfridges Building, Birmingham - 11 photos\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The year after opening, the building scooped up awards galore including the RIBA\u00a0Award for Architecture, the Civic Trust Award and the\u00a0Royal Fine Art Commission Trust, Retail Innovation.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/birmingham-selfridges-bullring-04.jpg\" alt=\"The Selfridges Building, Birmingham - 11 photos\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The building stands four storeys high, and is covered in a seamlessly curved outer skin decorated with 15,000 spun aluminium discs. It looks\u00a0ace!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/birmingham-selfridges-bullring-05.jpg\" alt=\"The Selfridges Building, Birmingham - 11 photos\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Described as &#8216;a computer-age geological outcrop, as distinctive and eye-catching as the white cliffs of Dover,&#8217; the strikingly\u00a0futuristic\u00a0lines form a stark contrast with the more traditional architecture of\u00a0Britain&#8217;s\u00a0second\u00a0largest\u00a0city.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/birmingham-selfridges-bullring-06.jpg\" alt=\"The Selfridges Building, Birmingham - 11 photos\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Selfridges with the Edwardian canopies of the equally magnificent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/the-magnificent-edwardian-grandeur-of-birmingham-moor-street-station\/\">Birmingham\u00a0Moor\u00a0Street\u00a0station<\/a> in the foreground.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/birmingham-selfridges-bullring-07.jpg\" alt=\"The Selfridges Building, Birmingham - 11 photos\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/birmingham-selfridges-bullring-08.jpg\" alt=\"The Selfridges Building, Birmingham - 11 photos\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/birmingham-selfridges-bullring-09.jpg\" alt=\"The Selfridges Building, Birmingham - 11 photos\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/birmingham-selfridges-bullring-10.jpg\" alt=\"The Selfridges Building, Birmingham - 11 photos\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/birmingham-selfridges-bullring-11.jpg\" alt=\"The Selfridges Building, Birmingham - 11 photos\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/birmingham\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>See more Birmingham photos here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/artanddesign\/2003\/sep\/01\/architecture.shopping\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian feature<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Completed in 2003 at a cost of \u00a360 million, the Selfridges Building in Birmingham remains one of my\u00a0favourite\u00a0modern\u00a0buildings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,193],"tags":[185,478,1195],"class_list":["post-10098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photos","category-places","tag-birmingham","tag-bullring","tag-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/birmingham-selfridges-bullring-02.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-2CS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10098"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10103,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10098\/revisions\/10103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}