The buzz around the city shows no sign of ending if this ‘Gun Quarter’ student development is anything to go by.

Stephen Giles, one of Birmingham's 'people with passion' and follower of all things construction brings you another construction update.

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Update on Lancaster Street, Birmingham, UK





The buzz around the city shows no sign of ending if this ‘Gun Quarter’ student development is anything to go by.

Stephen Giles, one of Birmingham's 'people with passion' and follower of all things construction brings you another construction update.


Birmingham is set to get another tall building.

Developer Reuben & Morgan has teamed up with Mayfair Land and Estates to bring this exciting student development to an area actively undergoing major regeneration.

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Artist Impression by DCSK Architects

Standing at 24 storeys, on the corner of Lancaster Street and Lawson Street, near the ‘Learning Quarter’ of Eastside, this development will provide a total of 556 student bedrooms, comprising a total of 115 studios and 441 multi-bed apartments.

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Artist Impression by DCSK Architects

With an eight-storey shoulder, the building will naturally integrate with the surrounding areas and provide active ground floor frontages where facilities will include a ground floor café, fitness studio, student hub areas, study spaces, outside terrace space, plus cycle storage for 82 cycles.

Future Generaton will be the student housing occupier, whilst DCSK are the architects behind the scheme.

They have designed a structural skin so that we will see an alternating pattern of solid pre-cast concrete panels and glazed openings wrap entirely around the building. These panels will incorporate a light warm hue to contrast to the darkness of nearby developments.

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Artist Impression by DCSK Architects

Sitting on the corner plot, the building will go a very long way to defining the area with this gateway entrance, and in the process, create a nice rhythm of mid-size buildings as you enter the city centre.

WHAT NEXT?

Plans were approved in the first week of January 2019 by the Planning Committee at Birmingham City Council.

The next phase of works will see the eventual demolition of buildings on site, before construction can commence.

Watch this space!

For posts, a gallery and links on this build, connect here.