A curved modernist glass office building at Barbirolli Square, Manchester, with a Victorian red-brick mill visible behind it, blue summer sky above, and a blue Tramway Look Both Ways sign on the left.

Barbirolli Square, Manchester — Modern Glass Tower and Victorian Mill

8 October 2019 · Manchester

Barbirolli Square holds two Manchesters in a single frame. The cylindrical glass tower on the left — curved floors, steel columns, sun catching in the glazing — faces off against the Victorian red-brick mill behind it, its arched windows and chimney stack as deliberate as the newer building's sweep. The tramway sign grounds it all at street level: overhead cables, white bollards, a couple of pedestrians mid-stride. The city builds forward without clearing the ledger of what came before.

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