New education hub provides learning spaces for thousands of Birmingham students Birmingham City University’s new £31 million building has officially opened today (Wednesday 10 January), offering additional teaching and learning space for 3,000 students and staff within more than 650 rooms. Facing Gopsal Street, the new building – Curzon B – comprises 100,000 square feet of additional stateof-the-art and experimental facilities for the institution’s existing City Centre Campus courses. Designed by Birmingham-based Associated Architects and constructed by Willmott Dixon, the building will assist in catering for the needs of the institution’s growing student numbers. The canalside development encompasses two sections of six and storeys respectively, with elevated external amenity space. The structure extends the University’s award-winning £63 million Curzon building, which has been housed on Cardigan Street in Birmingham’s Eastside since 2015 and continues the University’s transformation of this part of the city. developer-update.co.uk
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