Brutalist Hotel Tower, Manchester City Centre

8 October 2019 · Manchester

Two tower faces meet at a vertical fin, the ribbed cladding between them splitting the facade into a decisive wedge. Shot from street level looking straight up, the repetitive window grid locks into a rhythm that only resolves at the top where the Premier Inn sign breaks the pattern. Brutalist concrete at this scale is domestic by design and monumental by accident — every floor identical, the whole thing anything but.