Deansgate Square Under Construction, Manchester

25 September 2019 · Manchester

Four glass supertalls rise over Deansgate as Manchester builds upward at pace. Knott Mill Station and the Atlas Bar hold the street corner in Victorian red brick, unchanged — the scaffolding and tower cranes occupy the gap between what the city was and what it is becoming. Construction sites usually read as absence; here, with three distinct architectural eras stacked in one frame, the building work is the subject.