V Building
| V Building | |
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| General information | |
| Status | Never built |
| Location | Broad Street, Birmingham, England |
| Coordinates | 52°28′40.91″N 1°54′20.91″W / 52.4780306°N 1.9058083°WCoordinates: 52°28′40.91″N 1°54′20.91″W / 52.4780306°N 1.9058083°W |
| Construction started | Unknown |
| Completed | Unknown |
| Height | |
| Antenna spire | 152 metres (499 ft) |
| Roof | 147 metres (482 ft) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 51 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Eric Kuhne |
| Developer | Dandara |
The V Building (formerly known as Arena Central Tower) was a proposed 51 storey residential skyscraper that had been approved for construction on Broad Street on the Westside of the city centre of Birmingham, United Kingdom, as part of the larger Arena Central development scheme on the former ATV / Central Television Studios which were closed in 1997. The entire development site covered an area of 7.6 acres (31,000 m2). On completion the development would have set to include offices, shops, restaurants, cafes, leisure/entertainment, fitness centre and hotel. It was to have been located next to Alpha Tower, one of the tallest buildings in Birmingham, on what is currently a multi-level underground car park. The total cost of the entire scheme was expected to be £400 million and of the tower, £150 million.
The estimated date of completion was 2009. However, due to setbacks this was deemed unlikely and a later date of 2013 was presented by the developers and architects. In 2009, the developers received a 5-year extension to planning permission; the council turned down a 10-year extension in the hope that work would begin before 2015.
The proposed scheme was cancelled during 2014 and alternative plans for the plans, which do not include a tall tower, were approved by Birmingham City Council.
The V Building was not part of the original plan for Arena Central which was submitted in 1998 by Miller Group. No buildings in the design were taller than 20 storeys. However, the design was soon changed and a tower was incorporated later in the year. The design, by HOK Architects, was for a 50 storey tower which had a total height of 245 metres to the top of the spire and a roof height of 187 metres. At the time, that would have made the tower the tallest building in Birmingham and England, and one of the tallest in Europe. The building plan was referred to Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott, in 2000 who disapproved of the tower and forced it to be scaled down to 187 metres. The amendments to the design were made and the entire scheme later received outline planning consent.
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