Principal Hotel Clock Tower, Manchester City Centre

30 September 2019 · Manchester

Oxford Road frames the Principal Hotel's Victorian-Gothic clock tower against a sky where the sun is forcing itself through overcast cloud. On the left, the Palace Theatre marquee anchors a century of entertainment history; above the roofline, construction cranes mark the next layer of the city going up. Manchester has always built over itself — the old brick and the new steel sharing the same sky, pedestrians threading between both without looking up.