Manchester Construction Work, November 2017

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.