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New skyscraper planned for Manchester

33-storey student tower gets green light from council planners

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New skyscraper planned for Manchester

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The worst council in the country
Jonathan Schofield on the council that's ‘average with moderate prospects of remaining average’
 
The Good, the Standard and the Ugly...
Jonathan Schofield likes a rigid column of papyrus rearing up in front of him
 
St Peter’s Square v Piccadilly Gard...
Jonathan Schofield appreciates how the new proposals don’t have any daft lawns
 
The Good, the Standard and the Ugly...
Jonathan Schofield on whether the plans for the Town Hall Extension or Central Library are any good
Rebuilding Manchester
Jonathan Schofield reviews a book and wonders about city change
 
The Good, the Standard and the Ugly...
Jonathan Schofield finds something odd in the middle of the road
 
The Good, the Standard and the Ugly...
Jonathan Schofield loves street markets and wants more
 
The Good, the Standard and the Ugly...
Jonathan Schofield on vandalism by planning
Hanif Kara: making buildings fly
Phil Griffin attends a joyous Hanif Kara lecture at the Manchester Architecture and Design Festival
 
The one to watch: Mann Island
Yes we know it's Liverpool - but this is important stuff about how views can be as important as buildings
 
Manchester Architecture part three
Confidential concludes its general over-view of the region’s architecture: this time from the Ship Canal to th...
 
What's your fave NW building of the...
These are apparently the 12 best new buildings and schemes in the NW, shortlisted for the RIBA Awards 2010.
The Good, the Standard and the Ugly...
Jonathan Schofield loves the sweet Georgian lines of the re-opened Costume Gallery
 
Manchester Town Hall Tower: does it...
Jonathan Schofield and the tower and spire that we finally got right
 
Echo Arena
Phil Griffin takes a look at the MEN Arena’s new rival in Liverpool
 
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
 
Phil Griffin loves Abito
Quayside development is a hit
The Good, the Standard and the Ugly...
Jonathan Schofield and Manchester’s concert hall, is it good enough?
 
The Good, the Standard and the Ugly...
Jonathan Schofield dreams electric dreams as plans for the largest LED screen are set to brighten Manchester
 
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
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
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'
 
The Good, the Standard and the Ugly...
Jonathan Schofield on the Deansgate building with beautiful details which will house Central Library
 
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
 
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
 
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
The Good, the Standard and the Ugly...
Jonathan Schofield fears being crushed by a canopy in Stephenson Bell’s extension to Manchester Central
 
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 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
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
 
Manchester Architecture part one
Confidential begins a general over-view of the region’s architecture, starting with the period up to 1800
 
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
 
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
 
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
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