From Howe Street. Car park to the rear of Millennium Point, prob for the IMAX.
Millennium Point of 1997-2001 by Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners, a design-and-build job with executive architects Mason Richards. A steel and glass shed, 165 metres (541ft 4in.) long, set back standoffishly behind a large brick paved space. The west half, Think Tank, the Museum of Science and Industry, is covered by tilting terracotta-panel sunscreens. An unmarked entrance leads into the atrium, the south part low and oddly angled, the north big cantilevered Imax Theatre.
From Pevsner Architectural Guides: Birmingham by Andy Foster.
Imax Theatre. Stainless steel and zinc panels give an overriding impression of grey. Confusing plan, with the main level and the museum entrance two floors up. The cylindrical theatre, balanced by stepping floors to the west, confused by more grey cladding. Grand footway approach, oddly from the north east.
From Pevsner Architectural Guides: Birmingham by Andy Foster.
