Contact Theatre Roofline, Manchester — Brick Chimney Towers

30 September 2019 · Manchester

Contact Theatre's upper facade pushes skyward in a cluster of stepped brick chimney towers, their angular forms laced together with suspended steel cables and rigging hardware. Shot from street level looking up, the composition flattens the structure against a pale overcast sky and lets the geometry do the work. The building reads as industrial architecture and civic landmark at once — the Victorian brick vocabulary carrying one set of associations, the tensioned cable rigging pulling in another.