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Manchester architecture, the cloister like long corridor in the John Rylands library. England
Short travel video about Manchester www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYMlWwxVQTM
Some more from my wanderings around Manchester, Not my usual style, and fun to do something new :) Don't worry nature fans, i'll be back to more naturey stuff soon :D
These are in the financial district of Spinningfields.
The lens I'm using now is the spectacular Zeiss Loxia 21mm 2,8 :) My new baby.
I've ditched all my big zooms and travelling light with 3 tiny primes. So happy with this lens.
This will probably be my last urban shot for a while, I think I've got it out of my system whatever it was I was looking to do :D
Been a nice change, and there's something very cool about the angles and sharp lines of modern architecture against soft skies, I will be back.... but I think my heart is in getting my feet wet in waterfalls or trying to capture the morning mist :)
Looking forward to the autumn and winter now, although I love summer, for photography it's hard to capture anything interesting :) Bring me back my misty mornings and frosty ground :)
Manchester architecture. The amazing interior of the neogothic reading room in the John Rylands Library. England
A short tour of Manchester www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYMlWwxVQTM
This shot shows three aspects of Manchester architecture. On the right, the beautiful 1860's Italianate details are mostly intact. In the center, the Comerica Bank building shows the 1960's "urban renewal" eliminating many of these details. In the background, the Manchester Mill represents a functional, working building that replaced it's Italianate predecessor after a 1924 fire.
Listed Building Grade II
List Entry Number : 1197773
Date First Listed : 6 June 1994
Built in 1908, a warehouse with a steel frame, clad in red brick and brown and red faience and with a slate mansard roof. It is in Baroque style, on an island site, and has two and three storeys, a basement and attic, a symmetrical front of three bays and sides of 19 bays. The lower floors are rusticated, above them is a moulded cornice, in the upper floors are giant Composite pilasters, a decorated top cornice, and a segmental pediment in the middle bay. Lower in the middle bay is a curved oriel window. The doorways are in the canted corners, with a three-sided oriel window above. The windows in the outer bays are different on each floor.
The grade II listed 'Oddfellows Hall" sits in the shadow of newly built "Nancy Rothwell Building", home to the School of Engineering, both part of the University of Manchester.
Manchester
Murray Street - the old mill buildings have been regenerated and flats in this trendy area are among the most expensive in Manchester.
Listed Building Grade II
List Entry Number : 1270910
Date First Listed : 3 October 1974
Built in 1902, shops and offices in sandstone and some grey granite, and with slate roofs. The building has an irregular plan on a corner site, and has five storeys on the front, three on the side, and attics. The main front has three wide bays and a curved corner. The central round-headed doorway is in a round-headed arch, above is a feature with a balustraded parapet and ball finials, and at the top is a shaped gable flanked by octagonal turrets. The windows in the first and second floors are sashes, and in the upper floors they are mullioned and transomed. The curved corner rises to become a cylindrical turret that has a domed roof with a cupola and a finial.