Beetham Tower Above Hilton Manchester Deansgate

25 September 2019 · Manchester

Great Bridgewater Street holds the frame together: the dark Hilton facade to the left, Beetham Tower rising behind it in glass and steel, a pedestrian mid-stride in the foreground. The dramatic overcast sky presses down on all of it, flattening the distance between street level and the tower's upper floors. Manchester builds upward at pace; the older brick railway viaduct threading across the background is a reminder of how much the city has already stacked.