Baskerville
House, Birmingham, UK
Architect
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T. Cecil Howitt
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Date Built
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1938 - 1940 |
Location
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Broad Street
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Description
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Located between the new Library of
Birmingham and Paradise Circus is the elegant
Baskerville House. It was built as
municipal offices, on land reclaimed from a
former canal basin, as part of a proposed Civic
Centre plan in the 1930s that never came to
fruition.
When the city moved out in 1998 a number of
possible uses were proposed including conversion
into an hotel or as a replacement for the
Central Library. However, in the end it
was sold to "Targetfollow", a
UK property investment, development and
strategic asset management company. They
acquired planning permission to restore and
convert the Grade II Listed building to,
"197,000 sq ft of Grade A office
accommodation." This involved
extensive work within the original structure and
the addition of two floors of glass and steel.
Targetfollow say that the result was the
creation of a building that, "
received a BREEAM rating of 'Very Good'
and won Commercial Development of the Year
award at the Midlands Property Week awards
and the Midlands and East Anglia regional
award in the Refurbished/Recycled Workplace
category at the British Council for Offices
awards."
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