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Colmore Row - Colmore Row and Newhall Street,
Birmingham, UK
Architect
John Madin
Date Built
The banking hall
was completed in 1969 - the tower in 1976
Location
Colmore Row and
Newhall Street
Description
Once known as the National Westminster
House, this building on Colmore Row, in the
centre of Birmingham, is made up of a tower that
is 16 bays wide on Newhall Street, rising above
a former banking hall. The exterior of the
building is composed of precast concrete
panels. The doors to the banking hall are
made of metal cast in an abstract design.
Whilst NatWest did occupy the building, they
were not the sole tennant and apparently one of
the problems the building had was its inability
to attract enough tennants.
The building
has been unoccupied since 2003.
In 2008 British Land secured planning consent to
demolish it and build a "landmark 35-storey
tower which will provide 280,000 sq ft of office
space" on the site.