jimharri
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The skyline looks phenomenal when you're coming in on the train from the airport. Slightly different than what it looked like when I was growing up in the 70s!
Manchester’s Changing Skyline
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AlfGreyruinedmyday
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Don't recognise the place. No longer able to find the University Maths building for all of the carbuncles.
The difference over the last 20 years is incredible, long may it continue.
Red Bank. Tower/s up to 34 stories. Other plots between 15 and 50 stories.
Far East Consortium has launched a consultation on the Red Bank masterplan, while fleshing out plans to redevelop three plots along Dantzic Street.
www.placenorthwest.co.uk
Far East Consortium has launched a consultation on the Red Bank masterplan, while fleshing out plans to redevelop three plots along Dantzic Street.
FEC progresses 1,500-home Manchester proposals - Place North West
Far East Consortium has launched a consultation on the Red Bank masterplan, while fleshing out plans to redevelop three plots along Dantzic Street.
www.placenorthwest.co.uk
Watch in HD. Red cog.
Downing Living - First Street, 3 concrete cores.
Viadux - Under construction. Next to Axis
Deansgate Square, The Blade, Three60, the later 2 under construction.
Union Living - St John’s, under construction. In the distance.
Downing Living - First Street, 3 concrete cores.
Viadux - Under construction. Next to Axis
Deansgate Square, The Blade, Three60, the later 2 under construction.
Union Living - St John’s, under construction. In the distance.
tolmie's hairdoo
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Looking up isn't the issue, looks impressive, certainly at night.
What can be seen at street level remains the issue.
Boarded up shops, dirty streets, vaping and charity shops, scrotes continuing to mill around the gardens with zero accountability.
Smoke and mirrors.
What can be seen at street level remains the issue.
Boarded up shops, dirty streets, vaping and charity shops, scrotes continuing to mill around the gardens with zero accountability.
Smoke and mirrors.
andyhinch
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Is that a reflection of the country as much as Manchester though ?
feedmpenzaandhewillscore
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There’s loads of empty shops round St Anne’s Square and King street which used to be sort after retail space maybe 20 years ago. Manchester seems to have a smell of aged urine about it when you walk round it. Austerity mark 2 we are seeing more and more homeless people in door ways or the tent city that is starting to grow under the Mancunian way, it’s turning into a city of haves and have nots.
Blue Maverick
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That’s the country in general though, unless you live out in the countryside most towns and cities are like this. Just look at USA and their homeless cities basically, like Vegas, San Francisco to name but a few, we are not far behind, the only way to change it is a whole change in thinking by the public and those in charge, sadly it will never happen.
As for the skyline it now reminds me of NY, old and new combined, great To look at and worth a visit once in a blue moon.
Click on the link for the full PNW article and more future skyline CGI's.
Place North West
Planning tech company VU.CITY shows how city and town skylines will look in the years to come through a series of videos.
Development in the fast-evolving city is often hard to keep pace with, let alone visualise. VU.CITY has risen to the challenge.
The company’s 10-20 second fly-through videos depict the projects emerging in various districts. They are colour-coded, to show existing, recently completed buildings, consented schemes, and those under construction.
In doing so, they give a picture of Greater Manchester’s changing skylines and show the immense scale of development currently underway in the city.
www.placenorthwest.co.uk
Place North West
Planning tech company VU.CITY shows how city and town skylines will look in the years to come through a series of videos.
Development in the fast-evolving city is often hard to keep pace with, let alone visualise. VU.CITY has risen to the challenge.
The company’s 10-20 second fly-through videos depict the projects emerging in various districts. They are colour-coded, to show existing, recently completed buildings, consented schemes, and those under construction.
In doing so, they give a picture of Greater Manchester’s changing skylines and show the immense scale of development currently underway in the city.
REVEALED | The changing face of Greater Manchester - Place North West
Planning tech company VU.CITY shows how city and town skylines will look in the years to come through a series of videos.
www.placenorthwest.co.uk
Del_Bosque
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There are definitely strange goings on in Manchester
The very center of the City from what i’d say is a triangle between Revs De cuba on Deansgate/Peter St to Piccadilly Station to Shambles Square is very tired and grubby and not a nice place to be.
But you walk around NQ, Ancoats, Castlefield even over the border aroind Chapel St it’s much nicer shops, apartments bars and generally a better crowd of people and definitely much tidier.
dickie davies
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Has a smell of weed around it
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It was the tallest building in Britain when it was built.
tolmie's hairdoo
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More a sense of warped priorities?
Burnham and MCC are quite happy to champion the skyline, while turning a blinder eye to things at eye level which have been a problem for far longer than a country in present downturn.
If I can equate it to the Metrolink, it is championed by the council when we know it is incapable of delivering for purpose.
Beswick Prize Bands Big Drum
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My sister used to work there.
Eccles Blue
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And then you cry!! Beetham Tower is, to my mind, therefore obviously a very subjective opinion, a monstrous blot on our skyline. This is not a new opinion I’ve said it since the day it was built! Sorry.
I remember being driven past it in 1965 on our way to watch Altrincham play at Rochdale in the FA Cup, and my father telling us it was the tallest building in Europe. He was an architect, so I assume he was correct.
It was a wasted day, other than that. The game was called off due to a frozen pitch.
Bigg Bigg Blue
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Manchester skyline today from our back garden
