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Echo Arena
Phil Griffin takes a look at the MEN Arena’s new rival in Liverpool
 
Manchester Town Hall Tower: does it...
Jonathan Schofield and the tower and spire that we finally got right
 
Meanwhile in Manchester
March sunshine gets the deckchairs out. Wish you were here.
 
Lost cemeteries, pretty gardens
Jonathan Schofield and the central Manchester gardens that hide a spooky secret
Phil Griffin longs for dreaming spi...
Do the new student residences pass the test?
 
Manchester Town Hall: the guide and...
Manchester's principal Victorian building, explained and described for the city's visitors and residents alike...
 
The Good, The Standard and the Ugly...
Jonathan Schofield on the adorable, cuddly Kennedy Street institution
 
The Good, the Average and the Ugly:...
Jonathan Schofield books into the former S&J Watts warehouse and takes steps…or at least stairs
The Good, the Standard and the Ugly...
Jonathan Schofield loves the contrast between the old and new in the biggest room in the city
 
The Good, the Standard and the Ugly...
Jonathan Schofield and Manchester’s concert hall, is it good enough?
 
Phil Griffin loves Abito
Quayside development is a hit
 
The Good, the Standard and the Ugly...
Jonathan Schofield dreams electric dreams as plans for the largest LED screen are set to brighten Manchester
Manchester Architecture part two
Confidential continues with a general over-view of the region’s architecture: this time covering the nineteent...
 
The Good, the Standard and the Ugly...
Jonathan Schofield has a chat to architect Will Alsop on a day-brightening addition to Ancoats
 
Beauty first says Stephen Bayley
Jonathan Schofield interviews the 'design guru' prior to his city lecture 'Architecture is more important than...
 
Power to the People
The People's History Museum steels itself for new beginning
Changelings at the Chapman Gallery
Sarah Tierney talks to artist Teresa Wilson about her collection of lost boys and fairy children
 
The Walls Are Talking: Wallpaper, A...
Thalia Allington-Wood on the Whitworth Art Gallery going to the wall
 
Facing East and ARTIST ROOMS review
Thalia Allington-Wood recommends the latest Manchester Art Gallery exhibitions but she doesn't love them
 
Stockport viaduct gets shown up
Twenty seven arched wonder over the Mersey to shine once more
St Peter's Square transformation
The council's got big plans for the 'Civic Quarter'
 
Storm-troopers invade Manchester
Generation Pop Art Gallery hosts pictures of fictional characters who mean so much to so many
 
The Good, the Standard and the Ugly...
Jonathan Schofield on the Deansgate building with beautiful details which will house Central Library
 
Holocaust memorial day
Imperial War Museum North is staging a series of events to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust, including...
Passing Fancy: CCTV in Chinatown
Occasional piece mooching around Manchester spotting things we find interesting
 
Watercolour masters on show in Oldh...
A new exhibition at Gallery Oldham shows off an impressive collection of watercolours
 
Ten years of New East Manchester
One decade on and New East Manchester is still bringing in the big budgets and the big building projects
 
Jackson's Wharf plans
Peel Holdings listens to residents and local businesses over new building for Castlefield basin
So we have a tall building do we?
As Dubai's Burj Tower opens we compare it with Beetham Tower
 
Passing Fancy: Susie MacMurray, 'He...
Occasional piece mooching around Manchester spotting things we find interesting
 
Architecture and people: review of ...
Jonathan Schofield looks back at the noughties in Manchester's architecture
 
Best exhibition this year goes free
Angels of Anarchy: free for a day, Saturday 19 December
MOSI to get glassed in £7m refurb s...
Big glass blocks to be stuck on to the main museum building – heavy or what?
 
The Good, the Standard and the Ugly...
Jonathan Schofield fears being crushed by a canopy in Stephenson Bell’s extension to Manchester Central
 
BOTW/EQ:NQ - public art as it shoul...
Band on the Wall Lights up the Northern Quarter with Giant Graphic Equaliser
 
ExInked exhibition
Thalia Allington-Wood questions whether getting a tattoo of a spiny lobster on your back is really a good idea
Illuminated Art Car Parade
Crazy cars driven by crazy artists... see it in the city centre this Thursday
 
The Good, the Standard and the Ugly...
Jonathan Schofield admires a fine shape in the city centre but wonders about the man on the roof with the beer
 
Lancashire County Cricket Club rede...
The row over a ‘mega’ Tesco, LCCC and Trafford Council enters new phase
 
Peter Saville designs us some giftw...
The city’s Creative Director provides a Manchester first with some glorious wrapping paper
Shelter shocker fence farce
The Twentieth Century Society despair of the new St Peter’s Square Metrolink Station
 
Cafe in the treetops: the Whitworth...
Jonathan Schofield gets the exclusive nod from the Director about the winning Whitworth proposal
 
Chapel Street Open Studios
Salford artists launch art and craft events throughout November
 
Remember Granada – remember when it...
Phil Griffin, Urbis, Winter Hill and Manchester’s role in TV history
Manchester Architecture part one
Confidential begins a general over-view of the region’s architecture, starting with the period up to 1800
 
James Ellroy interviewed
Philip Hamer interviews the great US crime writer James Ellroy for Confidential as he heads to Manchester
 
The lesser famous Barry White
The Bolton-born artist talks to Charlene McAuley about St Ives in the 1960s and why big paintings aren't alway...
 
The Manchester Fiction Prize 2009
James Alexander has an enjoyable time in the Town Hall at one of the nation’s biggest literary prizes.
The Library Theatre to move into th...
Jonathan Schofield and how the Library Theatre is to become royal
 
The Good, the Standard and the Ugly...
Jonathan Schofield wants a sculpture melted down into hammers
 
The Irish World Heritage Centre to ...
The Irish World Heritage Centre thinks big - and not just with its name – and gives us a ring
 
Sexuality, violence and desire for ...
A new exhibition at the city centre's Artland Gallery will shake up your day
Elisabeth House re-invented
Jonathan Schofield on the pros and cons of the most prominent new building in Manchester for a decade?
 
The Whitworth Art Gallery’s new des...
Jonathan Schofield looks at five proposals and falls in love with an underground design for the Whitworth Art ...
 
The good, the standard and the ugly...
Jonathan Schofield travels into the moors and 1930 years backward
 
Buy Art Fair: the review
Thalia Allington-Wood visits the Buy Art Fair and swept away by its scale, ambition and moments of real talent
The American Scene: Prints from Hop...
Natalie Bradbury visits an evocative new exhibition that captures American life at the Whitworth
 
Albert Square and the ‘Surrealist P...
Manchester Art Gallery sends woman with roses on her face into Albert Square: she’s an Angel of Anarchy
 
The Good, the Standard, the Ugly: V...
Jonathan Schofield on a dilapidated link between Salford and Manchester
 
Home is where the art is
The Manchester Contemporary celebrates the Northern Arts Scene, both home and away
F-word in the Cathedral
Arkwright Fist samples Margaret Atwood’s trailblazer event for Manchester Literature Festival
 
The Good, the Standard and the Ugly...
Jonathan Schofield loves a special building in the best nineteenth century block of buildings in Manchester
 
The Sting of Passion
Lynda Moyo views the power of the femme through new gems at Manchester Art Gallery
 
The Good, The Standard and the Ugly...
Jonathan Schofield finds a titleless public space in the city and wonders whether we should name it
The Good, the Standard and the Ugly...
Jonathan Schofield has a chat to architect Will Alsop on a day-brightening addition to Ancoats
 
Arts and Crafts Market
Home-made, hand-crafted, freshly-cooked goodies galore from Friday
 
Captured: the IWMN exhibition
Jonathan Schofield almost gets stuck trying to escape from a tunnel in the Imperial War Museum North’s key 200...
 
The Good, the Average and the Ugly:...
Jonathan Schofield wonders if the Manchester International Festival public artwork isn’t a bit banal
The Not Part Of Festival
Lynda Moyo looks at what part the 'Not Part Of' plays in the MIF month...
 
The Good, the Standard and the Ugly...
Jonathan Schofield finds a gap in the Great Hall of the Town Hall as artist Anthony Gormley begins his Fourth ...
 
Marina Abramović Presents...: ...
Matthew Frost spends four hours being fascinated and frustrated at the Whitworth Art Gallery at a Manchester I...
 
Mapping Manchester exhibition
100-year-old maps on display at John Rylands Library prove that binge drinking pre-dated Deansgate Locks
A new Manchester masterpiece? Cheth...
Remake, remodel, retune: Manchester's city centre high school to rise again
 
The Good, the Average and the Ugly:...
Jonathan Schofield gets excited about the design of the anteroom and should be arrested
 
Design Is No Coincidence review
Danny McFadden gets to grips with a Salford University art show that takes its inspiration from Jade Goody
 
The Good, the Average and the Ugly:...
Jonathan Schofield, a remarkable building, the saddest story and the penalty shoot-out
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