Stainless Steel Spire, Manchester City Centre

8 October 2019 · Manchester

Shot from ground level, the tapering blade of this stainless steel spire fills the frame against a deep summer blue. The perforated dot-pattern running its full length isn't ornament — it's a second rhythm, geometric and deliberate, that pulls the eye upward as much as the form itself does. Glass office towers flank it on both sides, the older brick wall at the base a quiet note about what the city used to be. Manchester's city centre regeneration compressed into a single vertical.