Manchester Victorian Tower and Modern Skyline, City Centre

8 October 2019 · Manchester

Peter Street in central Manchester, where a Victorian Gothic red-brick tower meets a stack of modern brick-and-glass mid-rises in the same frame. The ornate turret on the left was built to last centuries; the buildings behind it were built to fill the gap left by the last ones. A sandstone wall in the foreground adds a third material layer — the city reads as a cross-section of its own construction history, each era deposited on top of the last under a flat blue summer sky.