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| TALL MANCHESTER | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A Guide To The Skyscrapers and High-Rise Buildings of Manchester. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Manchester is one of the most vibrant and beautiful cities in Europe with a culture and history that surpasses nearly all others. The Birthplace of the Industrial Revolution Manchester bares the fruits of this wealthy age with some of the grandest buildings in the country such as the town hall and the many former mills that now provide professionals with expensive inner-city accomodation. Now a major financial centre Manchester possesses some of the most impressive skyscrapers in the UK as well as many period offices, And as demand grows more and more graceful & ambitious high-rise projects are taking off. |
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| Manchester's Gothic Town stands at 87m tall & is a monument to Manchester's wealth and importance. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Of course Manchester like most other British cities in the 1960's & 70's made planning mistakes, in Manchester's case Piccadilly Plaza & The Arndale Centre are the most famous of these, but as more money pores into the city centre the potential of these buildings is being fufilled and the mistakes of the past corrected. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Strangely this regenration process was started by an IRA bomb which destroyed the heart of Manchester's shopping district,This presented a once in a century oppurtunity to right the mistakes of the past & create an urban oasis and city centre of the future and Manchester hasn't dissapointed. The area around Exchange square is beautiful both in its history and striking modernism. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Former Railway Arches at Deangate now double as fashionable bars. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manchster though is much more than a city, it's a culture all of its own, Maybe inspired from the heart of it's bleakest housing estates or perhaps from the knowledge and vibrancy of its 4 Universities and the Student Villiages they spawn. Manchester has produced some of the finest Music, Art & Science the World has known! And as long as this place remains the unique place it is I have no doubt more genius will be exported from this great city to follow the likes of Lowry and The Smiths! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Manchester's striking Museum of the Modern City "Urbis" with the 90m tall Arndale Tower behind. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||