Associated Architects has created proposals for two new student towers next to the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal in Birmingham city centre.

The scheme, for University College Birmingham, would deliver a total of 1,205 rooms in a 35-storey tower and a 15-storey sister building.

The structures are earmarked for the site of existing student accommodation at the university’s Cambrian Hall residences, which is about 200m from Mecanoo’s Library of Birmingham and roughly 400m from Victoria Square.

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