North Stand Expansion

[jrb]

These are my last pictures of the mockup, brickwork and pointing. I've done them to death.

Saturday.

 

[Coatigan]

These are my last pictures of the mockup, brickwork and pointing. I've done them to death.

Saturday.

It'll do the job at scale. Seen better, seen worse. Bit of an odd colour choice but that's a theme here, and at least it doesn't look cheap. There is good depth to the piers, and they used decent slip for the soffit, can't really ask for much more. Quite a bit of efflorescence already though, a week in, is not a great sign.

As an aside, a few differences there to the approval, at least how I remember it. It was approved as faced pre cast panels, not laid by hand. Could just be for the purposes of the mock-up for speed and ease, and won't really change the look. Just the speed of build. Does the top part have a bit of linnear corbelling, or is that just a really odd bit of perspective? Don't remember that or the random pattern at the back being mentioned anywhere. And again might be purely for the mock-up to keep it simpler, but are the brick piers not angled to match the sails as per below in the PA. If they do go down the traditional build route rather than panels, that bit will be a bit more difficult.

 

[Centurions]

The brickwork does look a bit "rustic" shall we say? Have they got some work experience lad to try their hand at bricklaying for the first time?

 

[Invisible Man's Bandage]

These are my last pictures of the mockup, brickwork and pointing. I've done them to death.

Saturday.

A nod to local roots as they are Coronation Street stylee.

 

[failsworthblueboy]

The brickwork does look a bit "rustic" shall we say? Have they got some work experience lad to try their hand at bricklaying for the first time?

I think they are building 2 examples of the finished brickwork, this will be the one they don't want.

 

[Coatigan]

Comparison of the pre/post concrete pour taken from the SS Skies and CP overview videos. The footprint of the tower is a lot easier to make out.
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Do you recon they will build the lift cores in the towers in blockwork rather than concrete?

 

[jrb]

I wonder why the club and Populous went with brickwork instead of smooth, plain, exterior and interior(fan zone) wall cladding panels?

 

[jrb]

Stating the blindingly obvious. We all know the finished brickwork and pointing will be perfect compared to the knocked up mock-up brickwork and pointing.

 

[supercity88]

I wonder why the club and Populous went with brickwork instead of smooth, plain, exterior and interior(fan zone) wall cladding panels?

I would have thought something more modern would have been favoured. It's very much a nod to Victorian Manchester if nothing else. Maybe they'll scribble 0161 into some of them as well.

 

[Coatigan]

I would have thought something more modern would have been favoured. It's very much a nod to Victorian Manchester if nothing else. Maybe they'll scribble 0161 into some of them as well.

Whether you joke or not, that is indeed the claim by Populus.

'A nod to the mancunian industrial heritage' is what they said.

'The use of red bricks is carefully taken into consideration to complete the palette of the City Square. Mimicking the material of Victorian Mancunian docks and warehouse buildings, the brick also adds warmth and emphasises the human scale in and around the city square'

I wonder why the club and Populous went with brickwork instead of smooth, plain, exterior and interior(fan zone) wall cladding panels?

As above, in their own words, it 'softens' the square.

I myself think brick is far better than most cladding products available, coming to ground level for robustness longevity and general experience, wehere that many people would gather. The colour choice aside.