Like
an hour's sitting of Sim City, Manchester is a constantly-evolving
cosmopolis. Visit one week and the skyline will look totally
different to the next, or last. In another ten years, from a
distance, it may resemble the skyline from the opening scene of RoboCop (Dallas, Texas, as
it happens).
For
that reason, I waited until after I'd exhausted the car boot sale at Bowlers
to head into the city while the sun was up and practice a bit of
photography. I'm not pretending I'm thing special with a camera- I
just wanted to capture parts of Manchester before they sit in their
completed state.
This
is Owen Street, a new skyscraper cluster near Deansgate Locks.
No.1
Spinningfields, office block under construction on the site that once
housed The Lawn Club.
Side
issue, but VIVA looks shocking from the outside in the light of day.
Circle
Square, the contradictory development on the former site of the BBC
building on Oxford Road, is taking shape:
And
onto John Dalton St we find a gap in the buildings perfect for office
block Bradley's Court.
Dusk
falls, and Great Ancoats St isn't the most illuminated place,
although with new constructions comes a new image- I expect one of
safety an homeliness. I'm guessing this block is the new Mulberry development.
I'll
hopefully be exploring some interiors later this week, including a
new Deansgate bar and some joints in The Northern Quarter.
A New, strange, tubular construction rises out of Cross St near Victoria Station.
Deansgate's Milton Hall, Home to clubs The Milton Club and History, undergoes some adjustments:
New flats rise between the Deansgate-Castlefield tram stop and the Hacienda Apartments.
Finally, cocktail bar Dirty Martini, a day before the wrap came off.
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