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.