Manchester Skyline: Victorian Mill Meets Glass Tower

8 October 2019 · Manchester

Deansgate-edge Manchester puts two eras of ambition side by side. The curved glass cylinder of the modern office block and the red-brick arched windows of the Victorian mill face each other across a bollard-lined plaza, neither conceding ground. Construction cranes in the middle distance mark a third wave still rising — the city keeps adding layers without resolving the argument between them. A deep summer sky, clouds stacking to the east, ties the whole frame together.