Birmingham_City_University_City_Centre_Campus
Birmingham City University City Centre Campus (known informally as Eastside Campus and tentatively as Creative Campus) "flagship" campus in the centre of Birmingham. It was constructed next to the existing facilities at Millennium Point and is part of the ambitious Eastside project - Birmingham's biggest physical regeneration scheme. The campus is the new home for media, arts and engineering learning [1] and includes fully operational television studios, a library, performance theatre, lecture theatres and a learning resource centre.
A planning application was approved in September 2009. Phase one of the build was completed in time for September 2013 with a second phase of the development expected to open in 2015. Birmingham-based Associated Architects have designed the facility around the general principles of "spacial efficiency, sustainability and functional suitability". It includes an open courtyard, a large atrium and an elevated bridge link into the Universities existing occupied areas of Millennium Point.[2]
Existing facilities at the Gosta Green and Bournville Campuses were moved to the new facilities as the University seeks to reduce the number of campuses it occupies. Margaret Street will be retained[3] along with Vittoria Street and, for the time being, City North Campus.