Manchester’s Changing Skyline

[ColinBellsjockstrap]

Tour de Manc brings you home via Norden towards Heywood where the wind turbines are. Decent view from up there.

Great views from the top of Wild Bank Stalybridge, Werneth Low, Hyde and the monument in Tandle Hills Park.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Yeah; some of the new ones are okay-ish. A lot of them, though; hmm. Cost, though, would be the issue. How much would a carbon copy (down to the last window catch) of the town hall cost to build? And as for the cost of a similar site (in terms of size and prominence)? Wow.

The Town Hall cost about £1m to build in 1877. In today’s money, that’s £96m in today’s money. However, that’s with only equating the cost of everything today as being the same ratio as it was back then; materials, labour, contracts, shipping costs etc. would have been much cheaper back then so hard to judge how much it would come to today.

 

[jimharri]

The Town Hall cost about £1m to build in 1877. In today’s money, that’s £96m in today’s money. However, that’s with only equating the cost of everything today as being the same ratio as it was back then; materials, labour, contracts, shipping costs etc. would have been much cheaper back then so hard to judge how much it would come to today.

I stand to be corrected here (wouldn't be the first time!), but I somehow doubt that 100m would go too far in constructing the same building today!

 

[Deleted member 77198]

I stand to be corrected here (wouldn't be the first time!), but I somehow doubt that 100m would go too far in constructing the same building today!

Definitely wouldn’t. I’m guessing here but I bet you could multiply the cost of materials, labour, contracts, shipping costs etc. by 100 on top of the 95 fold increase in price from 1877-2023.

As m7mcfc said, the refurbish is costing just under £400m (set to be completed next year).

 

[KPXBLN]

This is what’s there now:
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This is what it’ll look like:
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If it actually lives up to that image, that's nice.

Unlike nearly everything else built in central Manchester in recent years.

 

[somapop]

Indeed, I bet that Town Hall today would be a £1billion project today (and just not feasible....not that you'd want to recreate the past).
If you think the COOP Arena is £300 million and it's essentially a large empty box (I'm sure a very fine large box however).

 

[jrb]

Upper Wharf

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[jrb]

Don’t get me started about the proposed Tree House Hotel. :-(

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Pulp at Castlefield Bowl.

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