Beetham Tower Rising Over Deansgate, Manchester

25 September 2019 · Manchester

Beetham Tower frames itself between the dark Hilton facade and the Victorian railway viaduct on Deansgate — three eras of Manchester architecture stacked into a single street-level view. The turbulent cloud break directly behind the tower is what earns the shot: the city below is dense and flat, the sky above is wide open and moving. Old brick, new glass, heavy cloud. Manchester does not resolve these things; it just puts them next to each other.