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The architecture of Manchester demonstrates a rich variety of architectural styles. The city is a product of the Industrial Revolution and is known as the first modern, industrial city. [ 1 ] Manchester is noted for its warehouses , railway viaducts , cotton mills and canals – remnants of its past when the city produced and traded goods.
The Architecture and Planning Building, University of Manchester, Bridgeford Street, known as Kantorowich Building [1]. Researchers from the Manchester Architectural Research Centre (MARC) input directly into the graduate teaching.
Art Nouveau architecture in Manchester (6 P) B. Buildings at the University of Manchester (3 C, 26 P) C. Canals in Manchester (10 P) Cemeteries in Manchester (2 P)
Manchester Town Hall is a Victorian, Neo-gothic municipal building in Manchester, England. ... Charles Herbert Reilly, a contemporary architecture critic, ...
Corporation St. Bridge, Manchester Stephen Hodder MBE (born 1956 [ 1 ] ) is an English architect who won the RIBA 's Stirling Prize in 1996. He is also a partner at his own practice Hodder Associates which was founded in 1992 in Manchester . [ 2 ]
Richard Lane (3 April 1795 – 25 May 1880) [1] was an English architect of the early and mid-19th century. Born in London and based in Manchester, he was known mainly for his restrained and austere Greek-inspired classicism.
Prior to Greater Manchester's creation as a ceremonial county in 1974, the first tall building boom in Manchester and Salford occurred in the 1960s and 1970s, with notable buildings including the 118 m (387 ft) tall CIS Tower, which became the tallest building in the United Kingdom when constructed in 1962, [3] and the 107 m (351 ft) tall City ...
Harry S. Fairhurst (3 April 1868 – 31 March 1945) was a prominent architect in Edwardian Manchester. He was responsible for many of the city's iconic warehouses and his commissions include Blackfriars House, headquarters of the Lancashire Cotton Corporation and Arkwright House, headquarters of the English Sewing Cotton Company.