Paradise 2.0 : John Madin is Haunting Birmingham

Oliver, Catherine and Bates, Liam (2023) Paradise 2.0 : John Madin is Haunting Birmingham. Lo Squaderno. pp. 29-31. ISSN 1973-9141

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John Madin is haunting Birmingham. It started in 1974. And it should have ended in 2016 when they tore down his library. But Birmingham can’t shake off Madin’s ghost. No matter what they build on his remains, Madin’s brutalist haunting reminds Birmingham what it should have been, what it could still be.