Edwardian Baroque Tower, Manchester City Street

30 September 2019 · Manchester

Manchester's Edwardian civic architecture has a way of making the street feel smaller than it is — the Baroque tower rises from red brick and stone dressings into a heavy, cloud-filled sky, anchoring a corner that the city's daily traffic moves through without pause. A Stagecoach Magic Bus cuts across the foreground, blue and yellow against the warm brick facade, pulling the frame between monument and motion. The building holds its ground; the bus does what buses do — it moves on.