The Leonardo Royal Hotel Birmingham is a

hotel A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. Facilities provided inside a hotel room may range from a modest-quality mattress in a small room to large suites with bigger, higher-quality beds, a dresser, a ref ...

on Broad Street,

Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1.145 million in the city proper, 2.92 million in the West ...

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. The structure was originally an office building, the Chamberlain Tower. Built using

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cladding and

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joists, it was part of the plan to redevelop

in the 1960s. Construction commenced in 1974 and was completed the following year, to a design by Ian Fraser of John Roberts & Partners. It is one of the tallest buildings on Broad Street and forms a prominent part of the city skyline when viewed from the south. It is an example of

Brutalist architecture Brutalist architecture is an architectural style that emerged during the 1950s in the United Kingdom, among the reconstruction projects of the post-war era. Brutalist buildings are characterised by minimalist constructions that showcase the ba ...

in Birmingham, with other similar examples being

Birmingham Central Library Birmingham Central Library was the main public library in Birmingham, England, from 1974 until 2013, replacing a library opened in 1865 and rebuilt in 1882. For a time the largest non-national library in Europe, it closed on 29 June 2013 and was ...

and New Street Station Signal Box. The building was converted to a hotel in 1998, at a cost of £12.5m, and opened as the Chamberlain Tower Hotel on 1 February 1999 The hotel has 445 rooms, making it the largest hotel in Birmingham city centre. On the ground floor is a pub and a restaurant. It was bought by the

Jurys Inns Jurys Inn is a hotel group operating across the UK, Ireland and Czech Republic, with 36 locations under the Jurys Inn brand and 7 under the Leonardo brand. In total, the company operates 38 hotels in the UK, four in Ireland and one in the Czech R ...

hotel chain in 2001 for £42 million and renamed Jurys Inn Birmingham. In April 2022, the Fattal Hotel Group announced that all Jurys Inn Hotels would be rebranded as Leonardo Hotels. The hotel was renamed Leonardo Royal Hotel Birmingham on 19 December 2022.

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* Hotels in Birmingham, West Midlands Hotels established in 1999 {{WestMidlands-struct-stub

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