| Architect |
Future Systems |
| Date
Built |
September
2003 |
| Location |
The Bull Ring
|
| Description |
|
In September 2003, Jonathan
Glancey wrote in the Guardian, "The new Selfridges store in
Birmingham, although firmly anchored to
the new-look Birmingham Bull Ring, proves
to be not so much architecture as
ocean-liner berthed alongside Moor Street
station, but a vast cliff of a building, a
computer-age geological outcrop, as
distinctive and eye-catching as the white
cliffs of Dover. Its high, billowing form
might have been moulded by some smooth yet
insistent sea over the four years it has
taken to build."  This startling building, by the architects who designed the equally outrageous press box at Lords cricket ground, has been compared to a chain-mail dress by Paco Rabanne, a diamante bustier, a boulder and various other organic and inorganic shapes. When you look up at if from Park Street, it is difficult not to see a one-eyed monster with a very long nose.  |
|
|
Selfridges,
The Bullring Shopping Center - Birmingham, UK
  
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