Ringway Centre / SBQ from Smallbrook Queensway, Birmingham

When built in the 1950s this building was the longest office building in the country. It was designed to follow the contours of the new “inner ring road” of the city as a futuristic approach to city planning and design. The building has a series of patterned panels below the windows and extruded lighting troughs which were (until about a decade ago) used to up-light the building. Unfortunately the building was recently given a certificate of immunity from statutory listing – and developers are going to demolish huge chunks of it and completely remove the panelling. So my request please, is that some a wall-hanging could be made of a section of the building facade – including the lighting trough. It’s another example of post-war Brutalist style architecture that is going to be destroyed in the city and I think this would sell well alongside what is now memorabilia for the demolished Central Library and other modern buildings.