Harvey Nichols Glass Tower, New Cathedral Street Manchester

3 October 2019 · Manchester

The cylindrical glass tower at Harvey Nichols on New Cathedral Street does two things at once — it announces the building from a distance and pulls the eye upward past the roofline into a heavy, overcast sky. Shot from street level looking up, the curved facade stacks floor after floor of reflective glass, the Harvey Nichols branding only visible at the apex. Below it, the squared main block and Jo Malone signage anchor the ground plane. Manchester's retail architecture at its most deliberately vertical.