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Victoria Square is a pedestrianised square in central Birmingham between the Town Hall and the Council House, renamed in 1901 in honour of Queen Victoria. A statue of the queen by Thomas Brock stands here, and Dhruva Mistry's fountain The River, built when the square was remodelled in 1992–94, is known locally as the Floozie in the Jacuzzi.
St Philip's Cathedral is a Baroque church on Colmore Row in central Birmingham, designed by Thomas Archer and consecrated in 1715 as a parish church. It became the cathedral of the new Diocese of Birmingham in 1905. Inside are four stained-glass windows designed by Edward Burne-Jones, and its churchyard is a public green space.
The Library of Birmingham is the city's public library on Centenary Square, designed by the Dutch practice Mecanoo and opened by Malala Yousafzai in 2013. Its stacked blocks are wrapped in a filigree of interlocking metal rings, with garden terraces on the upper levels and the Victorian Shakespeare Memorial Room rebuilt on the top floor.
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