City of Culture
Reading this article it’s easy to draw parallels with last week’s news from West Brom. Both feature the cancellation of an ambitious, Alsop-designed building of questionable purpose, the disconnect between bid-winning visions and grass-roots reality and the promotion of cultural funding as a regeneration tool.
I’d like to believe that Birmingham would’ve done a better job. We do have a healthy selection of current cultural assets to draw on in this city, so I don’t imagine we’d have been struggling quite so hard just to think of something to put on. Fitting all of the funder-logos on the flyers might have been a different story. (link via d’log)
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