Selfridges at the Bullring is covered with a dramatic "skin" made up of 15,000 spun aluminium disks.

Selfridges - Birmingham

Photographers are drawn to this iconic building in Birmingham’s Bullring like moths to a flame (me included obvs)

Taken a year ago, more or less, when Covid-19 was simply an epidemic...my word, how the world has changed since then. We’re all armchair epidemiologists now, with a firmer grasp of the medical science and stats than the politicians (or so we think) and the MSM have got us worried sh1tless.

Currently we’re in lockdown v3 with a provisional end date of mid March....hah! Let’s see shall we?

Meanwhile I’m writing this at 1.45am with one foot in a bucket of ice water as my ankle RA has flared up and I’m waiting for my meds to kick in.

Happy days 😆

Much photographed exterior of the Selfridge Building at Birmingham’s Bullring.

Selfridges - Birmingham

the most photographed building in Birmingham on recent years?

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at the Birmingham Bullring. For those of you who are not in the know, or do not enjoy the shopping experience, this is an amazing place, and not just architecturally!

Camara / Camera: Nikon D80

Objetivo/Lense: Tamron 18-200mm

Place: Birmingham´s Selfridge, England, United Kingdom

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Some extra editing but the light on the edge of the building is what I was after.

Also high on my list to visit was the Selfridge's building in Birmingham's redeveloped Bullring. Designed by Future Systems it opened in 2003 and is special inside and out.

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I love a 365 as you never know where your next photo is going to happen. I was out shopping in Birmingham and looked up and saw a new angle on the Selfridges building. Very pleased!

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Whatever you might think about this building, it is certainly highly distinctive.....

The building itself is part of the Bullring Shopping Centre and houses Selfridges Department Store. The building was completed in 2003 at a cost of £60 million and designed by the architecture firm Future Systems. It has a steel framework with a sprayed concrete facade.

The building's facade is curved, wrapping around the corner of Moor Street and Park Street. The facade comprises 15,000 anodised aluminium discs mounted on a blue background, in an architectural form which has become known as Blobitecture.

Damn those buses!

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It is a while since I have posted a picture of Selfridges at Birmingham :)

Selfridges, Birmingham. Set of photos taken over a weekend in January 2020, visiting the Jewellery Quarter, the commercial centre, and other parts of Birmingham.

Selfridges, Birmingham.

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The iconic Selfridge building, Birmingham, UK

Taken from Millenium Point:10 Jan 2008, 17:36pm

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The historic Daniel Burnham-designed Selfridges flagship store at 400 Oxford Street in London is the second-largest shop in the UK (after Harrods) and opened on 15 March 1909. Other Selfridges stores opened at the Trafford Centre (1998), in Manchester at the Exchange Square (2002), and in Birmingham at the Bullring (2003).

The basis of Harry Gordon Selfridge's success was his relentlessly innovative marketing, which was elaborately expressed in his Oxford Street store. Originally from America himself, Selfridge attempted to dismantle the idea that consumerism was strictly an American phenomenon. He tried to make shopping a fun adventure and a form of leisure instead of a chore, transforming the department store into a social and cultural landmark that provided women with a public space in which they could be comfortable and legitimately indulge themselves. Emphasizing the importance of creating a welcoming environment, he placed merchandise on display so customers could examine it, and moved the highly profitable perfume counter front-and-centre on the ground floor.

Either Selfridge or Marshall Field is popularly held to have coined the phrase "the customer is always right".

(Wikipedia)

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DRS Class 68, 68009 stands at the buffers of Birmingham Moor Street. A waiting passenger checks his phone for the latest RTT info...maybe...beyond the distinctive exterior of Birmingham's Selfidges store

For alternative railway photography, follow the link:

www.phoenix-rpc.co.uk/index.html to the Phoenix Railway Photographic Circle.

Hyde park, rest from shopping

I've not had much Flickr time this week, but luckily went into Birmingham today and visited a few sites! This is the iconic Selfridges building by the Bull Ring.

HSS!

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