One for the Birmingham Uni Alumni this, specifically those of the BA variety. Did you know the Muirhead Tower is being re-up-done-holstered? Check this out:
That's not the crumbling health hazard I remember from 1995-8!
The image comes from Nikki Pugh who nabbed it from this PDF.
Muirhead (which, in an I-did-not-know-that moment, is named after the Uni's first Philosophy professor) had a number of urban myths and frightening truths connected to it. One of my favourites was that it was designed to work with the prevailing winds of South Birmingham in a quite innovative manner, like an aerodynamic fin of a building. Unfortunately it was built at the wrong angle so the wind battered it like an abusive husband causing it to shake and the windows to occasionally fall out and crash onto students walking below.
This could, of course, be bollocks but if you'd ever spent any time in there it rang pretty bloody true.
That's not the crumbling health hazard I remember from 1995-8!
The image comes from Nikki Pugh who nabbed it from this PDF.
Muirhead (which, in an I-did-not-know-that moment, is named after the Uni's first Philosophy professor) had a number of urban myths and frightening truths connected to it. One of my favourites was that it was designed to work with the prevailing winds of South Birmingham in a quite innovative manner, like an aerodynamic fin of a building. Unfortunately it was built at the wrong angle so the wind battered it like an abusive husband causing it to shake and the windows to occasionally fall out and crash onto students walking below.
This could, of course, be bollocks but if you'd ever spent any time in there it rang pretty bloody true.
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Rumour has it the University could have brought the current scaffolding outright 15-20 times over instead of the current annual hire charges!
I remember that rumour, that whole area never seemed to be warm - even on the hottest of days.
It sure did sway in the wind.
I remember lectures in there a few years ago! Its going to look a lot better when it is finally finished. I was beginning to thin that scaffolding could never come down.
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