Grosvenor House, Birmingham

I had dinner last night in an amazing piece of Birmingham constructivism, not Festival of Britain, but Czech cubist.   It might have been lifted straight from Prague.   It was a speculative office development, designed by Cotton, Ballard and Blow (Cotton was a property developer), dated 1953, and originally occupied by Shell-Mex BP:-

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