Beetham Tower Rising Behind Manchester's Tram Viaduct

8 October 2019 · Manchester

Beetham Tower clears the steel arch of Manchester's Metrolink viaduct by a margin that makes the city's layers impossible to ignore. The Victorian brick, the industrial arch, and the glass tower stack into a single frame — three eras of urban ambition compressed into one street-level view from Deansgate. The sky opens blue above the clouds, and the tram disappearing to the left keeps the whole scene honest about what this junction actually is: a working city, not a postcard.