Architecture | Concrete Urban Hello

Digbeth First Friday: VIVID

July 9, 2014 by emanemani

Digbeth First Friday: 4th July. Links: Digbeth First Friday: http://digbethfirstfriday.com/ VIVID projects: http://www.vividprojects.org.uk/ A3 Projects Space: http://a3projectspace.org/ Record Player Orchestra Website: http://recordplayerorchestra.com/ Trevor Pitt at Pod Projects: http://www.podprojects.org/about Ashok Mistry: http://ashokdmistry.com/

Categories: Black and White, Concrete, Lights, People, Smiles • Tags: a3 projects, a3 projects space, Architecture, art, artists, ashok mistry, Birmingham, black and white, city, colour, conceptual art, concrete, concrete urban hello, Contemporary Art, curators, Digbeth, First Friday, Indoor, industrial, installation, interior, July, kinetic, kinetic energy, lights, movement, panasonic lumix, people, photography, record player orchestra, Red, urban

Last week I attended a brilliant Art Walk arranged by the University of Birmingham Research and Cultural Collections department. Clare Mullett and her colleague Chloe Lund delivered a captivating tour of some of the art and sculpture around the University of Birmingham campus. I have studied there for years and always thought that it was a special place. Now I know it is. Clare and Chloe led our group around the campus through wind and rain, shining a light on […]

Categories: Black and White, Concrete, People • Tags: Architecture, art, art walk, campus, concrete urban, hello, panasonic lumix, people, sixties, university of birmingham

Shadows Collide With People

February 21, 2014 by emanemani

After weeks of compulsory thinking and compulsory writing, I am back. Thinking about slanting rays and meandering shadows let loose by the afternoon sun. These pleasant chaps consented to a group shot. But their friend Jim didn’t want to be in it. I’d like to thank them for the beaming smiles and hope they like this photo.

Categories: Black and White, People, Smiles, Uncategorized • Tags: Architecture, Birmingham, black and white, brummies, city, city centre, colmore row, concrete urban hello, panasonic lumix, park, people, university of birmingham

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Digbeth

February 1, 2014 by emanemani

This is Digbeth, part of Birmingham City Centre. There are lots of historical buildings, some pretty and some ‘ugly’. I like the combination of the two. Here you get the Edwardian Police Station reflecting on its much younger commercial neighbour, Smithfield House. Bollards. As I snapped this quiet grey building, I was reminded of many other underused buildings. It’s a shame, especially in the current financial climate, that we are not getting the full value of our assets as a […]

Categories: Concrete, People, Smiles, Uncategorized • Tags: Architecture, Birmingham, city, city centre, concrete, concrete urban hello, panasonic lumix, photography, urban

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Blue Skies

January 25, 2014 by emanemani

Today I visited my first love, the old Central Library and took a few photos. My view of this place may be rose-tinted, but I love it. Saying this, I love the interior even more than the Brutalist exterior. There were orange carpets, exceedingly well laid out books and great desks. The place is currently closed and soon to be demolished so the interior shots below are old. I took these a couple of years ago in my favourite corner: […]

Categories: Blue, Concrete • Tags: Architecture, Birmingham, books, brutalist, central library, city centre, concrete, concrete urban hello, dostoyevsky, exterior, library, memories, photography, ziggurat

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A Veil

January 1, 2014 by emanemani

This is an action shot of what scaffolding does. Don’t worry, I learned this a very long time ago, and I realise that it is a bland fact. However, as I walked to the shop that I did not buy my new camera from, I was drawn to the billowing fabric covering a large corporate building. Eventually I realised that it was the exact spot where I had photographed the faded turquoise scaffolding months ago. It had fulfilled its destiny, […]

Categories: Blue, Uncategorized • Tags: 2014, Architecture, bank, Birmingham, blue, buidling, city, city centre, concrete, concrete urban hello, frames, green, light, lines, manual, mirrorless, movement, new year's day, panasonic lumix, photography, scaffold, Turquoise, urban, Veil, wind

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Ghost of Now

October 27, 2013 by emanemani

This was taken inside the Ikon gallery in Birmingham. The building is a beautifully converted former 19th century school that houses an ever changing array of inspiring contemporary art. The warmth of the red brick permeates the attitude of the gallery which is one of welcoming all to art. It is one of our greatest cultural assets and a place that you must visit if you can.

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: 19th century, Architecture, art, Birmingham, brindley place, concrete urban hello, contemporary, decorative, Ikon, interior, orginal features, Red, red brick, school, visit

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Strathcona

October 25, 2013 by emanemani

Categories: Black and White • Tags: Architecture, black and white, canon, circular building, English heritage, grade II listed, lecture theatre, photography, powershot, retro, room, time, university of birmingham, white brick

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Curvaceous Wall

October 25, 2013 by emanemani

I was lucky enough to have a revision session in this awesome building. The photograph is of a wall in the Strathcona Building at the University of Birmingham Campus. As a lecture theatre inside a circular building, it hugs you.

Categories: Black and White • Tags: Architecture, black and white, canon, circular building, curved wall, g11, lecture theatre, photography, strathcona, university of birmingham, urban, White, white brick

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Looking Up

October 23, 2013 by emanemani

Categories: Black and White • Tags: Architecture, black and white, Indoor, modern

Concrete Urban Hello

Tag: Architecture

Digbeth First Friday: VIVID

Art is Everywhere

Shadows Collide With People

Digbeth

Blue Skies

A Veil

Ghost of Now

Strathcona

Curvaceous Wall

Looking Up