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- Planning permission was finally granted and approved by Birmingham City Council in December 2009. Building work, which was undertaken by Carillion, commenced in January 2010, with a completion schedule for 3 September 2013. A topping out ceremony to mark the completion of the highest part of the building took place on 14 September 2011.
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It is situated on the west side of the city centre at Centenary Square, beside the Birmingham Rep (to which it connects, and with which it shares some facilities) and Baskerville House. Upon opening on 3 September 2013, it replaced Birmingham Central Library.
Jun 29, 2013 · September 1865 - Birmingham's first public library opened to great acclaim. January 1879 - Fire significantly damaged the building and contents. June 1882 - A rebuilt library reopened along...
Sep 11, 2019 · The John Rylands Library was built from 1890-99 to designs by Basil Champneys for Enriqueta Augustina Rylands in memory of her husband, in a Gothic style in red sandstone. Built to house the theological library of John Rylands (a leading textile manufacturer and philanthropist), subsequently other collections were added over time and today it ...
Nov 28, 2023 · In 2013 this remarkable building in Birmingham, England, replaced a Brutalist concrete structure, the Birmingham Central Library (built in 1974).
The City Library was originally built as the Locarno Ballroom in 1958-60 by the Coventry City Architects Department in association with Kett and Neve. The builders were George Wimpey and Co and the cost was £211,000.
During the 1880s and 90s private philanthropy saw the construction of a vast number of small and medium sized libraries, and by 1914, 62 per cent of the England’s population lived within a library authority area.
The first libraries appeared five thousand years ago in Southwest Asia's Fertile Crescent, an area that ran from Mesopotamia to the Nile in Africa. Known as the cradle of civilization, the Fertile Crescent was the birthplace of writing, sometime before 3000 BC. (Murray, Stuart A.P.)
