• Bulldozers and wrecking balls in Birmingham | Letters

    Graham Downie on the city’s penchant for tearing down old buildings, and Angus Wood on Birmingham’s former brutalist library he once studied in Sadly, Birmingham has a long tradition of tearing down its recent past (‘If the Ringway goes, I’m leaving’ – the fight to save Birmingham’s brutiful masterpieces, 12 September). As an art student in the city in the late 1950s, I was fortunate enough to experience some of the buildings that disappeared in the &ldq

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