Arup moves into new Birmingham base at Paradise scheme

By Matilda Battersby2023-11-30T10:33:00

Source: Greg Holmes

Firm moving 1,000 staff from elsewhere in city into Howells-designed block

Arup has moved into its new Howells-designed offices in the centre of Birmingham on the site of architect John Madin’s Central Library it originally worked on in 1968.

The brutalist library was opened in 1974 and, despite a campaign to save it, was demolished in 2016 to make way for Argent’s Paradise scheme. Argent sold the development in 2021 to MEPC, owned by Federated Hermes.

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