Going, going, gone! Fletchers Walk and old Birmingham Conservatoire buildings bulldozed as £700m Paradise project gathers pace
It was the dingy, rundown shopping centre which was a relic of Birmingham's concrete jungle.
But now demolition teams are clearing Fletchers Walk to make way for the £700 million Paradise development.
A huge digger sits on a pile of rubble where the much-maligned centre once stood.
Work to knock down the former Royal Birmingham Conservatoire headquarters and Adrian Boult Hall next door has also started.
New pictures show the views from above as work continues in clearing the site at the heart of the city.
The buildings sat alongside Birmingham's Central Library as monuments to the city's Brutalist architecture
The city's Brutalist architecture grew in the 1960s and 70s mainly under the direction of city architect John Madin.
