Now I am not a Luddite, nor do I have a thing against modern buildings, but there remains a simple observation that when a building makes you feel insignificant then there is something wrong with its design.
The great vaunting spires of Medieval cathedrals may have soared upwards but there was a limit to how far they could go, and that limit suited most of us.
Tall enough to make a statement about the building and its relationship to God but never too huge that you forgot this was a structure which was meant to be comfortable to look at and be part of.
All of which brings me to those two new towers at the end of Deansgate and a feeling that they add nothing to the landscape.
But that is just my opinion. In the fullness of time I will ask Andy Robertson who has been recording the onward rise of the two since the ground was broken and building began.
Location Manchester
Pictures; Deansgate at Dusk ....... a sky line forever altered, 2018, from the collection of Andy Robertson
Tall enough to make a statement about the building and its relationship to God but never too huge that you forgot this was a structure which was meant to be comfortable to look at and be part of.
All of which brings me to those two new towers at the end of Deansgate and a feeling that they add nothing to the landscape.
Location Manchester
Pictures; Deansgate at Dusk ....... a sky line forever altered, 2018, from the collection of Andy Robertson
And I still call it 'Knott Mill Station', not Deansgate.
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