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28. Some really delicate carved stone detailing on this one. I’ve never seen anything quite like it!
November 5, 2025 at 1:12 PM
28. Some really delicate carved stone detailing on this one. I’ve never seen anything quite like it!
I have stayed in a lot of hotels over the years, and lot of them have had Gideon’s Bibles. I have never come across a Book of Mormon.
November 2, 2025 at 9:24 AM
I have stayed in a lot of hotels over the years, and lot of them have had Gideon’s Bibles. I have never come across a Book of Mormon.
27. This is a fun one. There’s a hotel nearby covered in multi-tonal square cladding panels, giving it sort of pixel effect across the whole elevation. All of the windows are L shaped, but they come in four different orientations, making a big flat facade really interesting.
October 31, 2025 at 1:09 PM
27. This is a fun one. There’s a hotel nearby covered in multi-tonal square cladding panels, giving it sort of pixel effect across the whole elevation. All of the windows are L shaped, but they come in four different orientations, making a big flat facade really interesting.
26. Some interesting material games on this one. The central mullion is carved timber, but the surround is all ashlar. I like the little egg and dart motif in the lintel.
October 30, 2025 at 5:34 PM
26. Some interesting material games on this one. The central mullion is carved timber, but the surround is all ashlar. I like the little egg and dart motif in the lintel.
25. A little top light above a grand doorway. I like the shape of the pointed arch and the little diamonds where the mullions and transoms cross. It reminds me of a portcullis.
October 30, 2025 at 1:31 PM
25. A little top light above a grand doorway. I like the shape of the pointed arch and the little diamonds where the mullions and transoms cross. It reminds me of a portcullis.
24. This one pleases me as has a foot in two ages. It’s made of steel and has side-hung opening lights, but follows the proportions and setting out of much older timber sash windows. Sadly in a very poor state of repair with a lot of rust.
October 29, 2025 at 1:52 PM
24. This one pleases me as has a foot in two ages. It’s made of steel and has side-hung opening lights, but follows the proportions and setting out of much older timber sash windows. Sadly in a very poor state of repair with a lot of rust.
23. I’m really into pairs at the moment. These are part of a much larger composition, which has this really interesting fluted framing device around all of the openings.
October 29, 2025 at 8:45 AM
23. I’m really into pairs at the moment. These are part of a much larger composition, which has this really interesting fluted framing device around all of the openings.
22. Last one from the back side of The Alexandra Theatre. These two share a soldier course lintel detail and use canted bricks to form the cills.
October 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
22. Last one from the back side of The Alexandra Theatre. These two share a soldier course lintel detail and use canted bricks to form the cills.
21. A window from Alpha Tower, one of the best buildings in Birmingham in my opinion. I drew it in the gutter of my notebook as it folds rather elegantly around the facade of the building.
October 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
21. A window from Alpha Tower, one of the best buildings in Birmingham in my opinion. I drew it in the gutter of my notebook as it folds rather elegantly around the facade of the building.
20. A nice dressed stone frame in brickwork. I like how they’ve done a narrow quoin to line through with the transom.
October 28, 2025 at 9:55 AM
20. A nice dressed stone frame in brickwork. I like how they’ve done a narrow quoin to line through with the transom.
19. Paired full height windows in a modern upper-level maisonette. The main structure is all very polite and well considered, and it think the ambition was to have gold window frames to set it off. Unfortunately the cost consultants evidently got hold of this and changed them to ‘metallic brown’.
October 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM
19. Paired full height windows in a modern upper-level maisonette. The main structure is all very polite and well considered, and it think the ambition was to have gold window frames to set it off. Unfortunately the cost consultants evidently got hold of this and changed them to ‘metallic brown’.
18. Another one from the back side of The Alexandria Theatre. I have no idea why there is one random circular window with a square opening light in the middle.
October 27, 2025 at 12:16 PM
18. Another one from the back side of The Alexandria Theatre. I have no idea why there is one random circular window with a square opening light in the middle.
17. More elaborate late-Victorian crinkliness. This is half of a huge semicircular window. At some point somebody has replaced the timber frame with white uPVC which is gloriously odd clash.
October 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
17. More elaborate late-Victorian crinkliness. This is half of a huge semicircular window. At some point somebody has replaced the timber frame with white uPVC which is gloriously odd clash.
16. An other modern one with nice proportions I like it when a window does tricks. This one incorporates part of the ventilation system and has an inward opening door with a perforated screen fixed to the face for fall protection.
October 26, 2025 at 11:27 AM
16. An other modern one with nice proportions I like it when a window does tricks. This one incorporates part of the ventilation system and has an inward opening door with a perforated screen fixed to the face for fall protection.
15. More mid-1920’s leaded goodness. There are three of these above a very grand wooden front door.
October 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
15. More mid-1920’s leaded goodness. There are three of these above a very grand wooden front door.
Off to the ballet, as one does.
(Again.)
(Again.)
October 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Off to the ballet, as one does.
(Again.)
(Again.)
14. Another sash window with the uneven mullion positioning. There are loads of these in Birmingham once you start to look for them.
October 25, 2025 at 7:59 AM
14. Another sash window with the uneven mullion positioning. There are loads of these in Birmingham once you start to look for them.
13. A sash with an arched head. I quite like how it goes from having one central mullion in between the top panes to the uneven mullions in the lower panes. I’m sure this uneven mullion placement has a name. It’s sort of Palladian?
October 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
13. A sash with an arched head. I quite like how it goes from having one central mullion in between the top panes to the uneven mullions in the lower panes. I’m sure this uneven mullion placement has a name. It’s sort of Palladian?
12. A nice slab of 1960’s concrete. The whole building is made from these faceted prefabricated frames, each one with a window mounted in it. Not everyone’s taste, but I admire the brutal rigour.
October 24, 2025 at 7:51 AM
12. A nice slab of 1960’s concrete. The whole building is made from these faceted prefabricated frames, each one with a window mounted in it. Not everyone’s taste, but I admire the brutal rigour.
11. A needlessly intricate exercise in brickwork and stone to integrate a roof dormer into the parapet. I’m glad we don’t do this sort of thing anymore.
October 23, 2025 at 6:33 PM
11. A needlessly intricate exercise in brickwork and stone to integrate a roof dormer into the parapet. I’m glad we don’t do this sort of thing anymore.
10. This is in the west wall of an all wooden church hall. I don’t think it’s going to be there much longer as the whole building is slowing rotting away.
October 23, 2025 at 12:07 PM
10. This is in the west wall of an all wooden church hall. I don’t think it’s going to be there much longer as the whole building is slowing rotting away.
9. This one is in a mid 1990’s social housing block. It’s all made from bulky PVC sections, but I admire the ambition.
October 23, 2025 at 7:57 AM
9. This one is in a mid 1990’s social housing block. It’s all made from bulky PVC sections, but I admire the ambition.
8. A nicely proportioned window in a mid 1960’s Catholic Church. Probably made using a very slender Crittall glazing system.
October 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
8. A nicely proportioned window in a mid 1960’s Catholic Church. Probably made using a very slender Crittall glazing system.
7. The back side of The Alexandra Theatre is a pick ‘n’ mix of odd shapes and seemingly random placement. I quite like it.
October 22, 2025 at 8:20 AM
7. The back side of The Alexandra Theatre is a pick ‘n’ mix of odd shapes and seemingly random placement. I quite like it.
6. A strip of 3 stacked windows in a modern apartment block. You see this device used a lot nowadays as it’s one of the few tricks architects have left when budgets get squeezed.
October 21, 2025 at 2:20 PM
6. A strip of 3 stacked windows in a modern apartment block. You see this device used a lot nowadays as it’s one of the few tricks architects have left when budgets get squeezed.