The Good-luck of Birmingham is an alternative proposal for Curzon Street Station in Birmingham. Capitalising on both drawing and performance, the project investigates the relationships between architectural form, history and imagination, and the possibilities inherent within those relationships. The project leverages abstraction in drawing to transform existing architectural components into new forms, simultaneously creating a disjunction between these forms and their previous histories, creating room for new meanings to emerge. Can we represent violence without re-enacting it? The station concourse takes on the form of cat’s head, alluding to a a mummified cat once placed alive under the floorboards of the station building in line with a victorian superstition. It was believed that a cat placed alive under the floorboards of the building would bestow good luck upon the station. The cat head now emerges to consume the preserved station building asserting its presence within the history of the building. In line with the story of fortune and violence embodied within the cat, the visitors of the station are confronted with an interplay of elements which emerge from Birmingham’s colonial and superstitious history; through exploring these assemblages visitors are invited to construct their own narratives between these elements.