Premier Inn Tower, Manchester City Centre

3 October 2019 · Manchester

The Premier Inn tower in Manchester city centre, framed from below through a concrete overhang and a run of anti-climb spikes. The facade is all repetition — row after row of identical windows marching up twenty-odd floors — and the overcast sky flattens the light just enough to make the grid read cleanly against the pale exterior. Urban architecture builds its authority through accumulation; a tower this uniform earns its presence by refusing to vary.