Bank Towers One and Two
Birmingham
B16 8WN
View site map HERE.
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Photography by Daniel Sturley
Architect: Glancy Nicholls
Construction: Wates
Developer: Regal Property Group
Enquiries: Knight Frank
In brief
The Bank Birmingham comprises two towers, with the tallest being 33-stories (102m) high, plus a Grade II listed building that occupies a key part of the complex.
The story of the build
Bank Tower One appears on the westside skyline in March 2017.
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Visable from the Library of Birmingahm's 'Secret Garden'
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Cometing with the towers of Brindleyplace.
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Daniel made an invited visit to the top of Tower One in July 2017.
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Piling for Bank Tower Two starts in July 2017
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August 2017, cladding well on the way
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September 2017, Daniel is invited to the Topping Out Cereomony for Tower One and Wates group kindly put up some prints of his construction photography.
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October 2017 sees the crane for Tower one removed an the one for Tower two inatalled and tethered to Tower One which is close to fully clad.
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The concrete core for Tower Two is rising fast in January 2018.
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With the lower structute chasing up fast behind.
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Late in January the core rises above its sibling on the westside skyline.
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February sees a super thin looking core rising far above Broad Street.
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Starting to be seen from far away, here from Tysley in late February 2018.
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Late March and the main structure has risen above the Bank Building and starting to impose ist mass on Broad Street.
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May 2018 sees the top-out of the concrete core.
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Sub-cladding installation well on the way.
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Some windows and final cladding panels also installed on the lower floors.
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July 2018 and the building is becoming a tower.
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In August 2018 the main structure of Tower Two passes its sibling Tower One.
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October and the cladding is installed on about half the building.
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Starting to dominate the westside skyline.
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The Bank Building with Tower Two behind in November sunshine.
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December and the tower is close to topping out.
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The iconic view develops.
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Daniel is invited by Wates Group to attend the Topping Out Ceromony for Bank Tower Two.
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The view twoards Southside from the top of Bank Tower Two.
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A time capsule is encased.
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February sees the final parapet finished and the tower starts to look magnificent in the low sunshine with a lot more of the light bronze and grey cladding installed.
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The 'Broad Street Cluster' really starts to show in March 2019
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After structural complettion in March the crane is taken down.
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Bank Birmingham from Five Ways Park in April 2019.
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May sees Tower Two dominating the westside skyline, but not for long as the construction of the Mercian on the opposite side of Broad Street is imminent.
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Some of the cladding reaches the full height of the tower in June, teasing is with spectacular sunset reflections to come.
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The widest side facing Broad Street in full June sunshine, the pattern of the cladding now clear withe the external lifts being de-installed.
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The almost externally complete Tower Two stands proud in July 2019 as the cranes for 142m The Mercian are installed opposite.
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August sees the multi-coloured programable strip lighting installed and tested on Tower Two.
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September sunset really announces Tower Two to the westside skyline.
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The street level retail spaces are prepared for clients and appartments go on sale.
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An October 2019 reflection in a local lorry assistance mirror.
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November and Tower Two is reaching far into the foggy winter sky.
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In December the colored light atop Tower Two compliment an errie post-sunset scene.
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The finished pair of towers in January 2020.
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An abstract of Tower Two in March 2020.
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The sunset reflects off the tower in April 2020.
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Tower Two lit red on the skyline as The Mercian rises inexorably alongside in August 2020.
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Tower Two lit blue with a crescent moon in November 2020.
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The Bank Birmingham Towers on the skyline from Egg Hill in Frankley on 31st December 2020, The Mercian now having surpassed the pair.
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Bank Birmingham in March 2021.
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Photography by Daniel Sturley
See the full construction photo gallery with hundreds of photos covering the full construction of this iconic build in the Westside BID: FULL GALLERY
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