Manchester’s Changing Skyline

[jimharri]

Minecraft but it looks stunning on the skyline

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!

 

[AlfGreyruinedmyday]

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!

Don't recognise the place. No longer able to find the University Maths building for all of the carbuncles.

 

[Keeper!]

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!

The difference over the last 20 years is incredible, long may it continue.

 

[jrb]

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.

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

 

[jrb]

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.

 

[AliBobbyJ]

I remember going on a school trip to the top floor of the tallest building in Manchester. The CIS Building.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

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.

 

[andyhinch]

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.

Is that a reflection of the country as much as Manchester though ?

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

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.

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]

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.

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.