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How Birmingham council bluffed European Commission to build Symphony Hall (2014)
- adwww 7y agoRelevance... tonight the UK leaves the EU. Also I suspect people hear will enjoy the slightly underhand way the project managed to secure the funding.
- chrisseaton 7y ago> tonight the UK leaves the EU That was yesterday.
- anigbrowl 7y agotl;dr the grant application for EU funding was left purposefully vague so they could put a symphony hall inside a conference center at a time when money was tight. The rest of the story is about why this particular symphony hall has nice acoustics even though it's in an ugly building.