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New Library Theatre/Cornerhouse Image Released

Liverpool Tower To Be Biggest Outside London

Manchester: Beauty Is In The Eye Of The Beholder

New Library Theatre/Cornerhouse Image ReleasedWhat do we think folks? Is this glimpse getting us excited?

New City Centre Footbridge LandsSpinningfields and Salford kiss

Liverpool Tower To Be Biggest Outside LondonNews and comment about Maurice Shapero's King Eddy ambitions

Manchester: Beauty Is In The Eye Of The BeholderGerman architects visit Manchester and capture it in sunshine

Manc Modernists Save Church: St Raphael1963 Stalybridge Roman Catholic Church listed after facing demolition

Hulme Hippodrome: Remarkable Pictures, Remarkable StoryHayley Flynn writes the words, Andrew Brooks takes the pics

Manchester Apocalypse: Death Of Our CityJonathan Schofield looks at James Chadderton's destructive exhibition

Sensitive Design: It WorksJonathan Schofield likes a wooden hut on the Oxford Road Station platform

The Good, The Standard And The Ugly: AeolusJonathan Schofield likes a bit of steel

Gavin Elliott, BDP: The Big InterviewJonathan Schofield discusses Starchitects and Architecture at BDP 61-11

The Good, The Standard, The Ugly: Chopin StatueJonathan Schofield loves the motive but doubts the execution

Great White Beauty Comes CleanJonathan Schofield on the re-awakening of a King Street classic

The Good, The Standard And The Ugly: LCCC FloodlightsJonathan Schofield illuminates himself getting progressively dimmer

The Good, The Standard and The Ugly: Ordsall HallJonathan Schofield on a wonderful building and stupid opening times

The Good, The Standard and The Ugly: Knott Mill BridgeJonathan Schofield on a well-hidden primary route

The Good, The Standard, the Ugly: Defunct FountainJonathan Schofield on a rubbish Royal Wedding memorial

Schofield’s architecture tourOld buildings, new buildings, stories, context and surprises

The Good, the Standard and the Ugly: The Opera HouseJonathan Schofield on a recently repainted Manchester landmark

The Good, the Standard and the Ugly: Manchester’s city walls

The Good, the Standard and the Ugly: Manches…Jonathan Schofield likes a rigid column of papyrus rearing up in front of him

The Good, the Standard and the Ugly: The Mechanics’ Institute

The Good, the Standard and the Ugly: The Mechanics’…Jonathan Schofield, The End of History, Marxists, TUC and a quite splendid building

Mooch and Revolve galleryThalia Allington-Wood is appalled and delighted by the Triangle's new commercial art gallery -

New skyscraper planned for Manchester33-storey student tower gets green light from council planners

The worst council in the countryJonathan Schofield on the council that's ‘average with moderate prospects of remaining average’

St Peter’s Square v Piccadilly GardensJonathan Schofield appreciates how the new proposals don’t have any daft lawns

The Good, the Standard and the Ugly: Central Library refurbishment

The Good, the Standard and the Ugly: Central Library…Jonathan Schofield on whether the plans for the Town Hall Extension or Central Library are any good

Rebuilding ManchesterJonathan Schofield reviews a book and wonders about city change

The Good, the Standard and the Ugly: Wooden settsJonathan Schofield finds something odd in the middle of the road

The Good, the Standard and the Ugly: St Ann’s Square Market

The Good, the Standard and the Ugly: St…Jonathan Schofield loves street markets and wants more

It's RIBA Architecture monthProbe the secret crannies of Liverpool like Larry Neild

The Good, the Standard and the Ugly: Hough End HallJonathan Schofield on vandalism by planning

Hanif Kara: making buildings flyPhil Griffin attends a joyous Hanif Kara lecture at the Manchester Architecture and Design Festival

The one to watch: Mann IslandYes we know it's Liverpool - but this is important stuff about how views can be as important as buildings

Manchester Architecture part threeConfidential concludes its general over-view of the region’s architecture: this time from the Ship Canal to the present day

The Good, the Standard and the Ugly: Platt HallJonathan Schofield loves the sweet Georgian lines of the re-opened Costume Gallery

Echo ArenaPhil Griffin takes a look at the MEN Arena’s new rival in Liverpool

Manchester Town Hall Tower: does it look wrong?Jonathan Schofield and the tower and spire that we finally got right

Lost cemeteries, pretty gardensJonathan Schofield and the central Manchester gardens that hide a spooky secret

Phil Griffin longs for dreaming spires in ManchesterDo the new student residences pass the test?

The Good, the Standard and the Ugly: the Royal ExchangeJonathan Schofield loves the contrast between the old and new in the biggest room in the city

Phil Griffin loves AbitoQuayside development is a hit

The Good, the Standard and the Ugly: the Bridgewater HallJonathan Schofield and Manchester’s concert hall, is it good enough?

The Good, the Standard and the Ugly: Axis and neonJonathan Schofield dreams electric dreams as plans for the largest LED screen are set to brighten Manchester

The Good, the Average and the Ugly: The Britannia HotelJonathan Schofield books into the former S&J Watts warehouse and takes steps…or at least stairs

Manchester Architecture part twoConfidential continues with a general over-view of the region’s architecture: this time covering the nineteenth century

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

Stockport viaduct gets shown upTwenty seven arched wonder over the Mersey to shine once more

St Peter's Square transformationThe council's got big plans for the 'Civic Quarter'

Ten years of New East ManchesterOne decade on and New East Manchester is still bringing in the big budgets and the big building projects

Jackson's Wharf plansPeel 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, 'Here come the Girls'Occasional piece mooching around Manchester spotting things we find interesting

Architecture and people: review of the decadeJonathan Schofield looks back at the noughties in Manchester's architecture

MOSI to get glassed in £7m refurb startedBig glass blocks to be stuck on to the main museum building – heavy or what?

The Good, the Standard and the Ugly: Peter HouseJonathan Schofield admires a fine shape in the city centre but wonders about the man on the roof with the beer

Lancashire County Cricket Club redevelopment plans submitted to Trafford Council

Lancashire County Cricket Club redevelopment plans submitted…The row over a ‘mega’ Tesco, LCCC and Trafford Council enters new phase

Shelter shocker fence farceThe Twentieth Century Society despair of the new St Peter’s Square Metrolink Station

Cafe in the treetops: the Whitworth winner announcedJonathan Schofield gets the exclusive nod from the Director about the winning Whitworth proposal

Manchester Architecture part oneConfidential begins a general over-view of the region’s architecture, starting with the period up to 1800

The Manchester Fiction Prize 2009James Alexander has an enjoyable time in the Town Hall at one of the nation’s biggest literary prizes.

The Library Theatre to move into the Theatre RoyalJonathan Schofield and how the Library Theatre is to become royal

The Good, the Standard and the Ugly: Arcus at the TriangleJonathan Schofield wants a sculpture melted down into hammers

The Irish World Heritage Centre to blossomThe Irish World Heritage Centre thinks big - and not just with its name – and gives us a ring

Elisabeth House re-inventedJonathan Schofield on the pros and cons of the most prominent new building in Manchester for a decade?

The Whitworth Art Gallery’s new designsJonathan Schofield looks at five proposals and falls in love with an underground design for the Whitworth Art Gallery extensions

The good, the standard and the ugly: Castleshaw Roman FortJonathan Schofield travels into the moors and 1930 years backward

Albert Square and the ‘Surrealist Phantom’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: Victoria BridgeJonathan Schofield on a dilapidated link between Salford and Manchester

Home is where the art isThe Manchester Contemporary celebrates the Northern Arts Scene, both home and away

F-word in the CathedralArkwright Fist samples Margaret Atwood’s trailblazer event for Manchester Literature Festival

Bunch of nutters to hug buildingWe love our architecture....for some that love has got physical

The Sting of PassionLynda Moyo views the power of the femme through new gems at Manchester Art Gallery

The Good, The Standard and the Ugly: The Square with No Name

The Good, The Standard and the Ugly: The Square wi…Jonathan Schofield finds a titleless public space in the city and wonders whether we should name it

The Good, the Standard and the Ugly: ChipsJonathan Schofield has a chat to architect Will Alsop on a day-brightening addition to Ancoats

Captured: the IWMN exhibitionJonathan Schofield almost gets stuck trying to escape from a tunnel in the Imperial War Museum North’s key 2009 exhibition

The Good, the Average and the Ugly: Flailing Trees by Gustav Metzger

The Good, the Average and the Ugly: Flailing Trees by Gustav…Jonathan Schofield wonders if the Manchester International Festival public artwork isn’t a bit banal

The Good, the Standard and the Ugly: Manchester’s Third Niche

The Good, the Standard and the Ugly: Manchester’s Third…Jonathan Schofield finds a gap in the Great Hall of the Town Hall as artist Anthony Gormley begins his Fourth Plinth project in London.