Last Chapter for City Library? ; Plans for a New Birmingham Library Attracted Acclaim but the Financial Realities May Mean the Scheme Never Gets Off the Ground, Argues Chief Reporter Paul Dale

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There was always an air of mystery about Birmingham's most stylish 'iconic' building, not least where the money might come from to deliver one of the world's best libraries.

Former Labour city council leaders lapse into visionary overdrive when describing the benefits of the Richard Rogers-designed structure at Eastside - the graceful lines of which, it is claimed, draw favourable comparison to the Sydney Opera House and the Guggenheim Museum, in Bilbao.

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Last Chapter for City Library? ; Plans for a New Birmingham Library Attracted Acclaim but the Financial Realities May Mean the Scheme Never Gets Off the Ground, Argues Chief Reporter Paul Dale

Acutely aware that demolition of the Central Library - once regarded as a Birmingham icon - and its replacement by a building some distance f...

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