The Selfridges Building in Birmingham
Britain’s second biggest city has been selected as one of the must-see destinations for this year by the New York Times.
At first glance, this seems an implausible scenario. Ask many people for their opinion of this Midlands metropolis, and they may well hark back to its grimy industrial past – as well as the pub-trivia titbit that it boasts more miles of canals than Venice.
Supporters of this often maligned city will point to the sleek outline of its Selfridges department store – a wildly futuristic structure, adorned with 15,000 sun-catching aluminum discs that brought a dramatic new presence to the skyline when it opened (to considerable fanfare) in 2003.
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