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	Bull Ring, Birmingham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1964 the 'new' Birmingham Bull Ring Centre was constructed, a mixture of traditional open-air market stalls and a new indoor shopping centre, one of the first of its kind in the UK.
		At the time of its opening it was considered the height of modernity, but unfortunately it did not age well and soon became generally regarded as an unfortunate example of 1960s Brutalist architecture, with its boxy grey concrete design and lack of air conditioning, and was, in later days, much disliked by the public.
		The 1960s Bull Ring Centre was demolished in 2000, and has been replaced by a new design, mixing both traditional market activity with up-to-the-minute retail units.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Birmingham_Bull_Ring (425 words)

	Wikinfo \| Birmingham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Birmingham is a city in the West Midlands in central England with an estimated population of 985,900 (2001 estimate).
		Birmingham is a multi-cultural city, with a large population from the Caribbean and Indian subcontinent: according to the 2001 census 29.7% of the population of Birmingham is non-white.
		Birmingham certainly does boast an unusual number of trees, and there are 35 miles of canals within the Birmingham city boundaries (by comparison there are 26 miles of canals within the centre of Venice - that is, within the six sestieri, and thus a much smaller land area than Birmingham[1]).
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Birmingham (1448 words)

	Search Encyclopedia.com
		Birmingham Birminghambûr´mĬngem, city and metropolitan district (1991 pop.
		Birmingham-Southern College Birmingham-Southern College, at Birmingham, Ala.; United Methodist; coeducational; formed 1918 by the merger of Southern Univ. (chartered 1856; opened 1859 at Greensboro, Ala.) and Birmingham College (opened 1898).
		Birmingham University Birmingham University, at Birmingham, England; founded 1900.
	www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=BullRing,Birmingham (481 words)

	The Bull Ring Shopping Centre in Birmingham West Midlands
		The state of the art building in which Selfridges is housed demonstrates their commitment to the future of the Bull Ring.
		What strikes you most about the Bull Ring is the way that the architects have blended the Rotunda and St Martins Church into the new complex in an almost seamless and pleasing manner.
		The new Bull Ring is certainly going to have an impact on the centre of Birmingham and it is likely that we will see significant increases in the number of tourists as a result.
	www.birminghamuk.com /bullring.htm (369 words)

	Birmingham - Read Ratings and Reviews of Birmingham, England. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Birmingham is located in Central England, and is Britainâ€™s 2nd largest city with an approximate population of 934,900 residents.
		Birmingham is now known as a center of water, road, and rail transportation in Englandâ€™s Midlands, and for the manufacturing of automobiles and bicycles.
		Birmingham is the second biggest city in England, and has the National Exhibition Center which is one of the biggest convention centers in the country.
	www.rateitall.com /i-8008-birmingham-england.aspx (337 words)

	James Snodgrass, Writer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Unfortunately the Bull Ring Shopping Centre is of national infamy, and it is a great shame that a monstrous building has become the emblem of this great city.
		The Bull Ring was genuinely innovative — the first multi-storey fully enclosed shopping centre in Great Britain — but the architects had to overcome severe difficulties, the earmarked 3.9 acre site was cut into three chunks because of major roads (Edgbaston Street, Smallbrook Queensway).
		The redeveloped Bull Ring should be the ultimate symbol of a once-ridiculed city rising phoenix-like from the asphalt and concrete —; an area of architectural excellence with a final plan chosen by a referendum of Birmingham citizens.
	www.jamessnodgrass.co.uk /portfolio/bull_ring.htm (1474 words)

	Guardian \| Look what's landed in Brum
		The centre, the Bull Ring, was blitzed in the war and then rebuilt dismally, save for the Rotunda, and is being rebuilt again in a trashy, flashy way, as if the city were determined to be known for its philistinism.
		It's a little sad, though, because while Birmingham is better known today for its conferences and summit meetings, its trade shows and its orchestra, it was also the working home of Boulton and Watt (and thus the steam engine); of Joseph Priestley, who discovered oxygen; and John Baskerville and his peerless typeface.
		The Bull Ring area is a kingdom for cars, with some of the fastest urban traffic in Europe.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,3984204-110432,00.html (956 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts critics \| Top of the blobs
		Birmingham's new Selfridges: 'a vast cliff of a building, a computer-age geological outcrop, as distinctive and eye-catching as the white cliffs of Dover.'
		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.
		Everyone will say the Bull Ring is a lot better than what went before - a 1960s development from hell - and most will like the positive media attention that Future Systems will surely generate for the city.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/critic/feature/0,1169,1033276,00.html (1178 words)

	Birmingham Archaeology - Project Experience
		The wide experience of Birmingham Archaeology on major projects, and the support provided by the University's Legal Office, Finance Office, Research Support and Business Development Office, and Safety Unit, ensures that wide-ranging and in-depth expertise is brought to the delivery of major contracts.
		The wide experience of the Birmingham Archaeology work on major transport-related projects, and the support provided by the University's Legal Office, Finance Office, Research Support and Business Development Office, and Safety Unit, ensures that wide-ranging and in-depth expertise is brought to the delivery of major contracts.
		Birmingham Archaeology has considerable expertise in Environmental Impact Assessments and large Desk-based Assessments, and our staff have contributed to such assessments as part of multi-disciplinary teams.
	www.arch-ant.bham.ac.uk /bufau/projects (213 words)

	HGS: Birmingham Branch
		In 1845 the Birmingham Branch was one of 14 branches in the Birmingham Conference.
		In 1882 David Spilsbury was released from the Worcester and Herefordshire Districts and appointed as a missionary in the Birmingham Branch.
		The Birmingham Sunday School was mentioned in 1849 at which time John Roberts was the superintendent and the branch met in the Liver Street Chapel.
	www.ldsep.org /england/birm/birmbr (5085 words)

	Birmingham Archaeology - Rural & Urban Evaluation
		Birmingham Archaeology is highly experienced in this work, having conducted several hundred such archaeological evaluations over the past decade, in most parts of the country for a wide range of clients.
		Birmingham Archaeology has the expertise and facilities to use all these techniques in an efficient, integrated evaluation strategy.
		The number of experienced field staff employed by Birmingham Archaeology enables it to deploy teams at short notice to carry out evaluations of all sizes, whilst the wide range of in-house specialists available ensures that all aspects of the evaluation report can be dealt with rapidly and efficiently.
	www.arch-ant.bham.ac.uk /bufau/services/eval.htm (353 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| Bulldozing the Bull Ring
		One of the symbols of modern Birmingham is finally set for demolition with the announcement that the infamous Bull Ring is to be redeveloped.
		The leader of Birmingham City Council, Theresa Stewart, said the plans were part of a long-held vision to "break the concrete collar" of the city's inner ring road.
		Demolition of the Bull Ring is planned for 2001 to make way for a new £500m retail development centred around St Martin's Church.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/uk/286054.stm (307 words)

	The Spectator.co.uk
		The only suitable penalty for the architects, town-planners and city councillors of the Birmingham of the 1960s is death.
		It is hardly surprising that the buildings are meretricious: planning permission demands that they have a lifespan of only 30 years, after which they may be pulled down and something else equally transient erected in their place.
		(Birmingham’s Central Library, a preternaturally ugly and uncleanable inverted step pyramid of concrete, which replaced the magnificent and thoughtlessly demolished Victorian library, is to be pulled down after about 30 years.) This is not the way to build a civilised city.
	www.lewrockwell.com /spectator/spec144.html (1034 words)

	St Martin's in the Bull Ring Birmingham
		Birmingham’s Bull ring is a remarkable example of post World War 2 modernism with concrete flyovers, underpasses, high rise office buildings and pedestrian areas.
		His plan was to demolish the building with the exception of the tower and spire, down to the foundations and rebuild in high gothic style.
		The saviour of the Burne-Jones window was the then Bishop of Birmingham, Dr.W.E.Barnes who must have had some sort of premonition on the day of the raid, as he sent an order for the immediate removal of the window.
	www.virtualbrum.co.uk /history/stmartins.htm (1191 words)

	Bull Ring
		One of the largest bronze animal sculptures in the UK, the piece is modelled on the Hereford Bull, an animal with strong historical associations to Birmingham.
		A symbol and icon of civic pride it is hoped that the people of Birmingham may adopt the bull as their 21st Century mascot.
		The Birmingham Alliance has contributed £1.9 million towards the restoration of St Martin's Church to bring the 18th century landmark back into focus at the heart of the city.
	www.freeform.org.uk /bullring.htm (873 words)

	Education \| Back to the future
		It is a ready symbol of Birmingham's decision to revive the ideals that inspired its Victorian municipal elders.
		Placed hard against the Gothic austerity of the originally 13th and then 19th century St Martin's church, the contrast between the pointed spire and diametric edges of the church and the rounded mush of Selfridges is an arresting one.
		Currently on the other side of Birmingham, away from the Rotunda and Bull Ring, a rather more nefarious development is taking place.
	education.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4746874-108228,00.html (911 words)

	BBC - Birmingham Faith - St Martin's Church, The Bull Ring
		St Martin's Church was designed by Birmingham architect Alfred Chatwin and built in 1875.
		It's the oldest of Birmingham's churches and has been the focal point of the markets area since the 12th century.
		Birmingham is always buzzing with carnivals, concerts and religious festivals.
	www.bbc.co.uk /birmingham/faith/places_of_worship/christian/st_martins_church.shtml (551 words)

	Society \| Farewell to the sixties
		Twenty years on, Merilion feels a little torn as the bulldozers prepare to move in on the Bull Ring and Brummies brace themselves for another round of redevelopment.
		Indeed, it was the destruction of so much of Birmingham's Victorian heritage during the city's neo-brutalist phase which first made Holyoak, 54, such an active protester.
		He heartily approved of the lowering of the "concrete corset" of the inner ring road, for instance.
	society.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4016277-103772,00.html (1135 words)

	Bull Ring
		At the intersection of New and High streets is the distinctive Modernism of the whopping Rotunda, but its neighbour, the notorious Bull Ring indoor shopping centre, which fulfilled every miserable cliché about 1960s town planning, has finally been demolished.
		At present, the Bull Ring is a giant building site rolling down the hill below the Rotunda, but its new incarnation - scheduled to be completed in 2003 - will consist of traditional streets and open spaces radiating out from St Martin's church.
		Incidentally, the Bull Ring was where bulls used to be tethered and baited in the belief that if the animal died angry, the meat was better.
	www.justengland.org /uk/birmingham/explore/003.asp (186 words)

	Birmingham – Cultural centre - TrenduUK -About the UK - British Council China
		Birmingham has undergone a major transformation in the last five years.
		The new Bull Ring area is buzzing with street cafes, contemporary shops, street performers (of a reasonable standard) and contemporary buildings.
		This variety of culture is reflected in the population of Birmingham.
	www.britishcouncil.org /br/china-aboutuk-trenduk-birmingham.htm (389 words)

	Selfridges, Birmingham
		Specialist sealing materials from Compriband Ltd. are playing their part in the construction of a spectacular space age design for a new retail development in Birmingham city centre.
		As part of the redevelopment of Birmingham's Bull Ring shopping centre, the external facade of a new Selfridges department store features a futuristic curved surface incorporating 15,000 silver discs.
		When inserted between building elements, the foam strips expand and fill the gap and conform to any surface irregularities to provide a tough, rubber like seal that is capable of accommodating movement caused by temperature changes or settlement.
	www.compriband.co.uk /bullring.htm (312 words)

	ring (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring VHS Video Frodo Baggins and the Fellowship continue their quest to destroy the One Ring and stand against the evil of the dark...
		Tolkien as the author of The Lord of the Rings trilogy and of its precursor, The Hobbit.
		Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the...
	www.byglrb.com /jewelry/ring&start=110 (1501 words)

	Fluent Europe - News - Fluent's CFD Software Improves the Air Quality for Shoppers at Birmingham's Bull Ring
		World leader in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Fluent Europe Ltd, has successfully completed a major project to predict the air temperature and air flow throughout the Eastern section of the new £500m Birmingham Bull Ring development, making a comfortable environment for shoppers.
		The Bull Ring development forms part of a wider, £800 million investment in the regeneration of Birmingham city centre by developers The Birmingham Alliance, a partnership between Hammerson, Henderson Global Investors and Land Securities.
		By simulating the air flow and temperature distribution within the mall, FLUENT's state of the art CFD software was used to demonstrate that the proposed ventilation system was effective and could maintain a comfortable temperature distribution in the region of a proposed café/restaurant development.
	www.fluent.com /worldwide/europe/news/bull_ring.htm (265 words)

	A load of Bull(ring)
		This comes as no surprise to the industrious locals, but may come as a shock to those who view Birmingham as a place where there are two footie teams, a few jewellers and a load of people with bad accents.
		Birmingham's kind of addictive: you start out half-believing the preconceptions held about it and by the time you come to leave (or not in my case ;) you're hooked...
		It's gold and fl and has "Birmingham Bull Ring" in raised letters around a picture of what I assume is the old Bullring.
	blogs.ipona.com /frog/articles/314.aspx (2571 words)

	BBC - Birmingham Webcams - The Bullring Webcams
		See the six-tonne bronze statue of a bull at the new £500m retail complex - The Bullring.
		The Lord Mayor of Birmingham, John Alden, said: "This is a great opportunity to celebrate the city's varied culture, the involvement of local people and the significance of this day as another piece in the jigsaw of the renaissance of Birmingham."
		SEE AND DO From chocolate factories to museums and galleries, there is plenty to visit with all the family.
	www.bbc.co.uk /birmingham/webcams/bullring/bullring.shtml (281 words)

	Minnesota Orchestra Virtual Tour, Don't Miss It: Day 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Birmingham is said to have more canals than Venice, Italy.
		There is an 800 year old market in the city called the Bull Ring.
		Birmingham was home to James Watt, the man who invented the steam engine and the letter copying machine.
	www.teaching.com /mnorch/2000/day_dont_miss.cfm?day=03 (115 words)

	ITM - Instrumentation, Testing and Monitoring - Bull Ring (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In the 1960s, when it was originally built, the Birmingham Bull Ring was hailed as a triumph of modern architecture.
		Railtrack's West Coast Main Line runs under the Bull Ring, in two parallel tunnels to New Street Station.
		All instruments are connected to 5 dataloggers using our unique 48V 'bus' power system and communicating with the outside world via modems and 5 dedicated BT lines.
	www.itm-ltd.com /pBull.htm (162 words)

	wwt
		The WWT Bus Tour kicked off for 2002 with a successful launch at the Sir Robert McAlpine Bull Ring in Birmingham.
		So it was only fitting that the of the fourth successive year of the WWT Bus Tour launched its biggest and longest tour at the Bull Ring.
		The site currently has a workforce of 1,000 workers, and the WWT bus visit attracted over 400 site workers who were enthusiastic to learn more about the campaign and how they could incorporate the WWT message into their daily work.
	wwt.uk.com /BusTourDetails.asp?ID=91 (213 words)

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