When I studied at the university of Wolverhampton I became a member of the Birmingham Library. I have to agree that I love the inside and I don't like the outside, though it does match Selfridge's. Not only that but on Centanery Square has/had some architectual/art mishaps; the eternal flame was shut off after a couple of years because the costs of keeping it on were too high. And then there is the
Forward! statue, made of plastic, which
burned down in 2003 (good riddance!).
I can remember one afternoon, after seeing a film and doing some shopping a group of us were waiting for the bus back to Wolverhampton and we saw a man cleaning those silvery discs. We couldn't help wondering if he with all the discs he could start all over again immediately.