Manchester Metrolink Tram at Spinningfields

8 October 2019 · Manchester

A yellow Metrolink tram cuts through the frame in central Manchester, holding its own against the curved glass office tower rising on the left and the Victorian red-brick warehouse behind it. The city is doing two things at once here — preserving the industrial fabric that made it and rebuilding over and around it. Summer light sits flat and even across the scene, letting each era of building read clearly against a blue sky stacked with cumulus.