Colour photograph looking up at the tall white Premier Inn hotel tower in Manchester city centre under an overcast sky, with the City Suites building and construction cranes visible to the right.

Premier Inn Tower, Manchester City Centre

3 October 2019 · Manchester

The Premier Inn tower fills the frame from street level, its sheer white slab facade pushing flat against a low overcast sky. The composition is driven by the tension between the blank planar face and the receding purple-grey edge — a near-abstract geometry hiding in plain sight on the Manchester skyline. Behind it, the City Suites block and a pair of construction cranes mark the ongoing redevelopment pressing in from every side. Two hi-vis workers at the base hold the scale.

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