00:00I've traveled quite a bit and I'm very fond of Birmingham because it's
00:07kept its local vernacular, it's got some fabulous older buildings but it's also
00:13allowed some of the more modern designs to permeate into quite close into the
00:19CBD itself. So you've got places like 103 Commonwealth Road which is quite close
00:25into what we are here in Victoria Square where you've got the fabulous Town Hall
00:32whatever you call it locally I don't know but there's some beautiful old
00:36stuff. So I used to stamp the centre of London and this is the closest I've
00:41found. Now that's probably a bit of a bit of a swear word on Birmingham but I
00:46think what the the local architecture has here is fantastic and I think some
00:52of the new stuff that's going up really celebrates that in the way that it's
00:56sympathetic to it but it moves forward as well. Okay first of all of course the
01:02City Hall is a major landmark in Birmingham. Also I was stunned by a
01:08number of buildings that although they look abandoned they're pretty
01:12massive and interesting. The Britannia Hotel I think if you if you know it
01:17pretty well and they also I'm interested in the landmarks like the
01:22rail you know the the viaducts the viaduct that's that's outside the city
01:27in Digbet and I'm pretty impressed with the variety the
01:34diversity that you find. There's different periods there's brutalism there is
01:38Victorian style. I loved the 19th century architecture the grandeur of the public
01:44buildings the Town Hall the museum the Queen Victoria statue and the
01:51uniformity of the architecture in New Street.
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