PRINT: Alpha Tower - Look Up

PRINT: Alpha Tower - Look UpNON UK ORDERS: Please use our Etsy Store HERE Alpha Tower in Birmingham glowing in this night time look up shot Black & White Risograph Print 40cm x 30cm Printed on 170gsm Munken Pure Rough paper Unframed Alpha Tower Location: Birmingham, England Architect: George Marsh of Richard Seifert & Partners Completed: 1973 Status: Grade II Listed Brief Overview: Alpha Tower was originally designed and built as the headquarters of the commercial television

part apartments

rooftop restaurant

with two missing floors creating a dramatic gap

full of quiet character

and is surrounded by the Barbican Estate housing complex

infill panels

Brief Overview: New Street Signal Box has kept the regions network moving for decades- originally housing the Westpac Geographical Interlocking & Signalmens push button control panel (the largest relay interlocking in the world when installed) and also the Railway Telephone Exchange

This model captures the calm presence of the Rotunda as a reminder of a city that’s always changing

Some buildings make sport feel like theatre

It doesn’t shout for attention

it has become one of the most recognisable post-war modernist buildings in the Netherlands and was listed as a national monument in 2009

Roberts AssociatesCompleted: 1965Status: Grade II listed