
Womanchester: the story, the tours, the exhibition
Jonathan Schofield finds his feminine side during a month devoted to women

Beauty first says Stephen Bayley
Jonathan Schofield interviews the 'design guru' prior to his city lecture 'Architecture is more important than politics'


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Manchester's principal Victorian building, explained and described for the city's visitors and residents alike...
Jonathan Schofield dreams electric dreams as plans for the largest LED screen are set to brighten Manchester
Confidential continues with a general over-view of the region’s architecture: this time covering the nineteent...
Jonathan Schofield interviews the 'design guru' prior to his city lecture 'Architecture is more important than...
Thalia Allington-Wood recommends the latest Manchester Art Gallery exhibitions but she doesn't love them
Jonathan Schofield on the Deansgate building with beautiful details which will house Central Library
Imperial War Museum North is staging a series of events to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust, including...
One decade on and New East Manchester is still bringing in the big budgets and the big building projects
Jonathan Schofield fears being crushed by a canopy in Stephenson Bell’s extension to Manchester Central
Thalia Allington-Wood questions whether getting a tattoo of a spiny lobster on your back is really a good idea
Jonathan Schofield admires a fine shape in the city centre but wonders about the man on the roof with the beer
Confidential begins a general over-view of the region’s architecture, starting with the period up to 1800
Philip Hamer interviews the great US crime writer James Ellroy for Confidential as he heads to Manchester
The Bolton-born artist talks to Charlene McAuley about St Ives in the 1960s and why big paintings aren't alway...
James Alexander has an enjoyable time in the Town Hall at one of the nation’s biggest literary prizes.
Jonathan Schofield on the pros and cons of the most prominent new building in Manchester for a decade?
Jonathan Schofield looks at five proposals and falls in love with an underground design for the Whitworth Art ...
Thalia Allington-Wood visits the Buy Art Fair and swept away by its scale, ambition and moments of real talent
Manchester Art Gallery sends woman with roses on her face into Albert Square: she’s an Angel of Anarchy
Jonathan Schofield loves a special building in the best nineteenth century block of buildings in Manchester
Jonathan Schofield almost gets stuck trying to escape from a tunnel in the Imperial War Museum North’s key 200...
Jonathan Schofield wonders if the Manchester International Festival public artwork isn’t a bit banal
Jonathan Schofield finds a gap in the Great Hall of the Town Hall as artist Anthony Gormley begins his Fourth ...
Matthew Frost spends four hours being fascinated and frustrated at the Whitworth Art Gallery at a Manchester I...
100-year-old maps on display at John Rylands Library prove that binge drinking pre-dated Deansgate Locks
Danny McFadden gets to grips with a Salford University art show that takes its inspiration from Jade Goody






















































