March 27, 2008

Margaret says goodbye to TRA

 Margaret Dunsford has retired from her job as Operations Manager at the TRA (Tenants and Residents Alliance) after six years with the organisation. Colleagues and friends attended a special luncheon buffet at Spitfire House to say farewell, and happy 60th birthday to Margaret, whom Carole Rafferty, TRA Chairperson, described as “a wonderful friend.”
Margaret told her audience [...]

March 27, 2008

Midlands architects overlooked for City library designs

 FOA - (Foreign Office Architects) design for London 2012 Olympic Stadium
Alejandro Zaera Polo and Farshid Moussavi of Foreign Office Architects

Birmingham City Council have today announced a shortlist of seven architect companies invited to submit their designs for the proposed new central library.  The project will cost £193 million. The shortlisted seven are from various countries; four of [...]

March 27, 2008

‘ What train station? What campaign?….’

Click here to go to the original article (October 2007), and to Mike Sloyan’s comment (posted 27.03.08) about the ‘plans’ for a train station for Castle Vale.