Powerhouse stadium to be built with bricks from former hospital
Birmingham City Football ClubBricks from a Birmingham hospital that stood for more than a century are being salvaged for a major regeneration scheme.
Birmingham City Football Club have bought one million bricks, which specialists have cleaned, sorted and restored from the former City Hospital.
They will be used to build the Powerhouse stadium in the city's planned Sports Quarter, replacing materials removed after the hospital's closure.
Developers say the bricks will help build the twelve brick chimney‑style towers planned to reference Birmingham's industrial heritage.
The stadium forms part of a wider development designed to host sporting and entertainment events.
A record of how the bricks were manufactured, stored and transported is expected to be documented and displayed as part of the new development.
City Hospital Birmingham first opened in the late 19th Century, built using more than a million bricks produced at Adderley Park Brickworks.
The site was originally known as the Birmingham Workhouse Infirmary before being renamed Dudley Road Hospital in 1912.
In 1948, the hospital became part of the newly established NHS, offering medical, dental and nursing care to all.
City Hospital closed after more than 130 years of service in 2024 with original bricks removed and stored during the decommissioning process.
Birmingham City Football Club unveiled plans for the 62,000-capacity stadium last year.
They said the reuse of the bricks in The Powerhouse "marks a new phase for materials that have been present through more than a century of change in Birmingham".
They added: "The development will return the bricks to the site where they were first made, preserving a link between the city's industrial past and its current regeneration plans".
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