Results tagged “birmingham” from Birmingham Post - Lifestyle Blog

I will put my hands up and admit I'm a bit of an architectural snob. Or at least, that I've been architecturally spoiled - growing up in Liverpool, which hosts the most listed buildings of a UK city outside of London.

So, one of my favourite pastimes is comparing Liverpool with Birmingham - and this frequently involves architecture. Now I don't actually know anything about architecture; I'm just an ignorant aesthete: if it looks pretty and old then I like it. So I enjoy a good moan about Birmingham's boring 1960's grey suburban sprawl and general lack of aesthetic value.

Until the other day, in town, I simply looked up and realised that this is not necessarily true. Check out this beauty:

A few weeks ago I wrote a column in The Post casting doubt on claims that events in the city actually generate the money which they are purported to generate.

It was claimed, for example, that the Tory conference at the ICC would bring £20 million into the local economy. Still not noticed the boom in sales of Ferraris in the city? No, me neither.

I don't doubt that big events raise a company's/city's/person's media profile but I remain sceptical about the level of economic largesse.

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I'm putting together a map of Birmingham's pubs and bars on Google Maps (for full version click here), and would love any readers out there to chip in with their own ideas.