Beetham Tower Rising Above Deansgate, Manchester

1 October 2019 · Manchester

Beetham Tower pulls the eye straight up from Deansgate's street level, its glass taper dissolving into a heavy overcast sky. The framing does the argument for you: scaffolded Georgian masonry on the left, the Oxnoble pub anchoring the right, and 47 floors of curtain wall threading the gap between them. Manchester's urban regeneration rarely makes the contrast this clean — the old city still standing, the new city already past it.