David Rowan : Mass [future deleted]
Images from the life cycle of Masshouse Circus 1963 - 2004.
By David P Rowan davidRowan
Category: Arts & Photography
Tags: David Rowan, Masshouse Circus, liam Kennedy, Birmingham, Demolition, Future, History, Subways, U.K, architecture, Past, Regeneration, Luminous
The ruins of the future:
The multi-level, high rise, interlocking sky-road, known as Spaghetti Junction, is the most familiar of the 60s road systems in the U.K. built for the ‘future-cars’ of that decade and beyond. Modelled on the freeways of the USA, no self-respecting modern city was complete without them.
Mass House Circus Gyratory was a smaller less complex version, positioned right in the heart of Birmingham’s city centre. The underground systems, car parks, upper road decks and subway tunnels were demolished between 2000 and 2004, in order to redevelop the cities East Side area. To facilitate this rebuilding, the Bullring Centre and Mass House Circus were erased less than 38 years after they were both originally constructed.
Standard Landscape 10x8 inches (25x20 cm) 42 pages
Published: March 22, 2007
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