Beetham Tower Manchester — Glass Facade at Dusk

8 October 2019 · Manchester

Beetham Tower pushes its cantilevered glass overhang out over Deansgate like a flat horizontal blade, held against the vertical grid of the curtain wall above. At dusk the cool blue-grey glass picks up the warm sky behind it — the building doing two things at once, solid mass and near-transparency, each working against the other. Street-level Manchester carries on below: cars, kerbs, the ordinary business of a city evening.