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New terminal, The International Building, opens at Birmingham Airport. The design for the Rotunda is approved and the building begins construction. 1962 June: The outdoor market area in the Bull Ring is opened with 150 stalls. 31 August: Appointment of Albert E. Webb as chief fire officer.
The 15th century Old Crown, originally the hall of the Guild of St John, Deritend, is the sole surviving secular building of the medieval town.. Although place-name evidence indicates that Birmingham was established by the early 7th century, [3] the exact location of the Anglo-Saxon settlement is uncertain and no known trace of it survives. [4]
Birmingham's population quadrupled between 1700 and 1750. [179] By 1775 – before the start of the mechanisation of the Lancashire cotton trade [180] – Birmingham was already the third most-populous town in England, smaller only than the older southern ports of London and Bristol and growing faster than any of its rivals. [181]
Created by Birmingham-based architects, Capita Lovejoy, the ‘Golden Square’ will provide a focal point for visitors and shoppers within the Quarter. Construction is due to start in Autumn 2011, with completion in Spring 2012. [71]
Ringway Centre is a Grade B locally listed [1] building located on Smallbrook Queensway in the city centre of Birmingham, England.The six-storey, 230 metres (750 ft) long building was designed by architect James Roberts as part of the Inner Ring Road scheme in the 1950s and is notable for its gentle sweeping curved frontal elevation.
The position was created in the 1950s by the Public Works department to assist the design and construction of large building projects that were prompted by the demands of the growing population and by the vast amounts of money being invested into regenerating areas that had been devastated by the Luftwaffe in the Birmingham Blitz.
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High-rise construction in Birmingham did not begin until the post war redevelopment of the 1960s and 1970s, when more than 25 commercial buildings taller than 50 metres were erected within the city centre and westwards along Broad Street to Five Ways and Hagley Road.