Cylindrical Glass Tower, Manchester City Centre

5 October 2019 · Manchester

Shot from pavement level, the curved curtain-wall facade of this Manchester city centre tower tapers upward into a heavy overcast sky, the geometry pulling tight into an almost abstract cylinder at the top. The low angle strips the building back to its essential form — stacked glass and steel, round where everything else in the frame is flat. The Arndale tower sits in the background left, red letters just visible, grounding the abstraction in a recognisable skyline.