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3 September 2025

Construction of The Octagon – Birmingham’s tallest building – Completes

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

31 March 2022

One Centenary Way, a major new landmark commercial building, marked another major milestone today after it was officially topped out.

15 November 2021

Federated Hermes and CPP Investments announce they are to become joint-venture partners on the development.

9 August 2021

Arup is set to move its third largest global office to Paradise Birmingham in a move that will bring 1,000 jobs to the city centre.

8 February 2021

Michael Strangeways of consulting engineers Arup explains their role in bringing the building to life.

30 September 2020

Enormous steel trusses have started to be installed at the site of the city’s newest landmark

19 December 2019

A 50 tonne piling rig arrived at Paradise this week to begin laying the foundations for One Centenary Way

10 December 2019

One Centenary Way will overlook the transformed Centenary Square.

20 December 2018

December brings short days, cold nights and frosty mornings.

1 March 2018

The latest stage of development has been given the green light after Birmingham City Council awarded planning permission

20 December 2017

As the £700m transformation of Paradise continues to gain momentum, a planning application has been submitted for One Centenary Way.

17 August 2017

Detailed plans for the next office building in Paradise are to be displayed at a public exhibition next month.