As great as the Selfridges building is, it's always a disappointment when there's an abrupt junction with the rest of the redevelopment as can be seen here. The problem is not unique to the Bullring, as you can imagine whenever two firms of Architects work together on what is essentially the same building it is sort of inevitable.
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Wideangle shot of Birminghams Selffridges. As much as I like the building, from street level you can see why some people have likened it to a giant space slug.
Wikipedia, whilst describing Birminghams Bull Ring, states : "It features a dramatic landmark building, housing a branch of Selfridges department store to a design by the Future Systems architectural practice. The store is clad in 15,000 shiny aluminium discs and was inspired by a Paco Rabanne sequinned dress. The Selfridges store cost £60 million and the contractor was Laing O'Rourke. Covering an area of 25,000 square metres (270,000 sq ft), the designs for the Selfridges store were first unveiled in 1999, not long before demolition of the original shopping centre began. The Selfridges store has won eight awards including the RIBA Award for Architecture 2004 and Destination of the Year Retail Week Awards 2004.
There is a multi-storey car park opposite Selfridges on Park Street which is connected to the Selfridges store via a 37 metre long, curved, polycarbonate-covered footbridge, known as the Parametric Bridge, suspended over the street."
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Taken last Summer at a Pick-your-own Sunflower farm. It was a great idea, just a field full of sunflowers at various stages of readiness and you wandered round cutting off the ones that took your fancy for a £1. As a photographer it was a great free photo opportunity, unless you count the money my wife spent there (which of course I do).
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I don't know if the Selfridges building had recently been cleaned but the Aluminium discs covering the outside of the Future Systems building looked particularly good when I took these shots.
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Just a couple more shots of the Bullrings Selfridges, the 'Button building' (as my four year old daughter calls it) to go now. I took quite a few different versions and I find it hard to say which is my favourite. The curves in this one are a bit 'curvier' and I've added a touch of difusion to make the aluminium discs glow.
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