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5 February 2026

Promoting Health Benefits

Paradise regeneration delivers £43m health benefits through active travel, greener spaces, and people-first urban design.

3 September 2025

The Octagon, Birmingham’s tallest building and world’s first pure octagonal residential skyscraper, has marked its practical completion.

20 February 2025

Paradise Birmingham and its development partners have raised £5,104 for leading local charity, Acorns Children’s Hospice.

19 September 2024

The Octagon, the city’s first official skyscraper and newest landmark with a world-first design, has ‘topped out’.

4 September 2024

They will be among the first to ascend Birmingham’s tallest skyscraper and the world’s first purely octagonal residential high rise.

31 July 2024

A chance to be among the first to visit the very top of the world’s first pure residential octagonal high rise.

15 April 2024

World's first pure octagonal high-rise residential building is now just months away from claiming its place in Birmingham’s history books.

22 August 2023

As progress at Octagon marches on – and upwards! – we’re working hard to extend the range of sustainable initiatives.

8 June 2022

Enabling work progresses on Octagon, the world-first octagonal residential tower at the northern apex of the Paradise site.

17 December 2021

Global real estate developer CDL is developing the site of the world first Octagon tower.

7 December 2021

29 April 2021

The world’s first pure Octagon residential tower has today been awarded planning permission by Birmingham City Council.

19 October 2020

A planning application for the world’s first pure Octagon residential tower has been submitted to Birmingham City Council.