被当地人称作“Brum”的伯明翰是英格兰的第二大城市,它曾是糟糕的城镇规划的代名词,而如今则正在逐步摆脱工业下滑的趋势,比如投入大笔资金用闪闪发光的玻璃和钢铁更换20世纪60年代那些单调的混凝土建筑。相比于数十年前,现在的市中心看上去好多了,这主要归功于复兴的Bullring购物中心,以及标志性的塞尔福里奇(Selfridges)大楼,该建筑像一个巨型机器昆虫的复眼一般,从空中俯瞰这座城市。 Known as “Brum” by locals, Birmingham is England’s second-largest city, once synonymous with poor town planning, and is now gradually freeing itself from the industrial downturn, such as investing heavily in glittering Glass and steel replaced monotonous concrete buildings of the 1960s. The city now looks much better than it was decades ago, thanks in large part to the revival of the Bullring Shopping Center and the iconic Selfridges Tower, which resembles the compound eye of a giant robotic insect , Overlooking the city from the sky.