Manchester Central Convention Complex Glass Facade

8 October 2019 · Manchester

Manchester Central's curtain wall runs at a hard diagonal from foreground paving to roofline, the gridded glass catching full sun against an open blue sky. The geometry does the work here — a lone pedestrian mid-path gives the scale, the plaza's wide stone flags give the weight beneath. Modern Manchester rises behind it: two towers punching above the facade's peak, the whole composition sitting between hard urban horizontals and the single raking line that cuts through them.