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The modernist Barnes Wallis Building designed by architecture practice Cruikshank & Seward. Part of the modernist UMIST campus in Manchester.
Manchester, Salford and Media City 130523 #3
Media City UK is an area around Salford Quays and, as the name suggests, is home to companies such as the BBC and ITV offices and studios. I had much better luck here and I’m posting my photos of my tour both today and tomorrow. How wonderful that the area has its routes named as colours. For my first group, I did a shortish circular walk along Blue, then Green across Media City Footbridge across the Manchester Ship Canal, towards, and past, Imperial War Museum North to the Quay West building, where I took a photo of its impressive, imposing, block reflective frontage – shooting through a gap in the gates.
Manchester, Salford and Media City 130523 #3
Media City UK is an area around Salford Quays and, as the name suggests, is home to companies such as the BBC and ITV offices and studios. I had much better luck here and I’m posting my photos of my tour both today and tomorrow. How wonderful that the area has its routes named as colours. For my first group, I did a shortish circular walk along Blue, then Green across Media City Footbridge across the Manchester Ship Canal, towards, and past, Imperial War Museum North to the Quay West building, where I took a photo of its impressive, imposing, block reflective frontage – shooting through a gap in the gates.
House of Fraser, Manchester
A purpose built Art Deco building was designed by Harrods' in-house architect, Louis David Blanc, with input from a local architect, J S. Beaumont, in 1938 and completed in 1939.
Manchester, Salford and Media City 130523 #1
I parked the car at Deansgate North Q-Park and walked into Cross Street Manchester for a quick look around, window-shopping, before I started on my main business of the morning around the Deansgate 101 building which, I suppose, is possibly Salford rather than Manchester. I paused as I passed through an arcade off Deansgate and took a couple of shots of the elegant interior – and then continued into Cross Street. After some retail therapy, I walked back along New Cathedral Street, through Shambles Square and along the side of Manchester Cathedral before crossing the River Irwell/Tib. Up Cathedral approach Bridge – where I took the photos I’ll be posting tomorrow.
Listed Building Grade II
List Entry Number : 1271451
Date First Listed : 6 June 1994
A late 19th century warehouse in red brick with a sandstone plinth and dressings and a slate mansard roof. It has a rectangular plan, three storeys with a basement and attics, and five bays with curved corners. Above the ground floor is a frieze and a cornice, and above the top floor is a prominent cornice on brackets. The doorway has an architrave with a swag on the frieze and an open pediment. The windows are sashes.
This reflection was seen in the middle of Manchester, it might not look like a 'straight out of the camera' shot but it is.