Mecanoo   United Kingdom   With a population of a million, Birmingham is one of the United Kingdom’s leading financial and educational centers. Its urban core has historically been maltreated, however, so the past two decades have seen ambitious plans for it launched with the

Future Systems   United Kingdom   Above all, for the director of the Selfridges department stores, enthusiast of radical architecture, the new building of Birmingham had to be an icon for his emporium and for the British city. The resulting volume, brimming over with mass and form an