Manchester’s Changing Skyline
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Going to distract myself from the post match ambivalence.
That is a very good photo! On the north stand thread I commented a couple times that the externals lend themselves well to unitised installation, and that I could see them building it that way, avoiding scaffolding etc. This photo shows it pretty well in action.
You can see where the joints and hooks are, each unit is made of the solid/perforated panel coupled with the glazed panel and top and bottom panels. The big crane will lift it to the building, the smaller crane would take over and guide it into place, guys will then attach it to each level internally to partly cast-in fixings. The precision of it is as impressive as its speed. Each of those units will likely weigh 150-200kg.
I wouldn't be surprised if that's exactly how they build the office and hotel at rhe borth stand. With the sail segments already attached.
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shocking build next to the deansgate imo
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Few people hate how it will look. No problem with it personally, as long as it doesn't go back to smog and chimneys.
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Changed so much since I was last back five years ago, and infinitely more since I was a lad.Few people hate how it will look. No problem with it personally, as long as it doesn't go back to smog and chimneys.
Hard to believe some times.
Few people hate how it will look. No problem with it personally, as long as it doesn't go back to smog and chimneys.
A matter of opinion and of taste of course, but I’m more in favour of the North American looking skyline made up of mostly boxy towers that Manchester has got and is getting, over an oddly shaped City of London skyline and Dubai skyline with towers of different shapes.
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