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Manchester Town Hall: the guide and a tour

Manchester's principal Victorian building, explained and described for the city's visitors and residents alike

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St Peter's Square transformation

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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?
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
 
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
 
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
 
Jackson's Wharf plans
Peel Holdings listens to residents and local businesses over new building for Castlefield basin
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
 
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
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
 
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 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 ...
 
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
 
Have you won an apartment?
Property developer asks public to help find competition winner
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
 
 The Social Lives of Objects
Thalia Allington-Wood is disturbed by the mermaids at Castlefield Gallery
 
The Good, the Average, the Ugly: Ci...
Jonathan Schofield scrambles amongst rats, ruins and filth at an old offices, shops and and charity school
The Good, the Average and the Ugly:...
Jonathan Schofield discovers how a dream becomes reality in St.Helens
 
Videogame Nation exhibition
Lynda Moyo reminisces on video game days gone by at the new Urbis exhibition
 
Mooch and Revolve gallery
Thalia Allington-Wood is appalled and delighted by the Triangle's new commercial art gallery
 
The British Landscape, CUBE
Natalie Bradbury finds a strange beauty in photos of industrial and post industrial Britain
The Manchester Gallery review
Jonathan Schofield visits Manchester Museum’s new gallery and calls for a proper Museum of Manchester Life
 
UK DIY at Turnpike Gallery
Natalie Bradbury is inspired to get crafty by an exhibition of DIY culture
 
40 Days of Solitude at Nexus Café
Thalia Allington-Wood on the art of doing nothing
 
Subversive Spaces: Whitworth Art Ga...
Thalia Allington-Wood on a truly remarkable start to the artistic year in Manchester: you gotta go
 
IRAQ The Space Between - exhibition...
Phil Hamer an astonishing exhibition of Iraq war photography from the impressive Christoph Bangert
 
Let’s build a Manchester icon: Gorm...
Jonathan Schofield makes the case for creating the greatest public artwork never started in the UK
 
Antony Gormley in his own words, ve...
Jonathan Schofield interviews 'Angel of the North' artist, Antony Gormley, as his work 'Filter' arrives in Ma...
Let’s build a Manchester icon: Gorm...
Jonathan Schofield makes the case for creating the greatest public artwork never started in the UK
 
Art round-up 2009
Thalia Allington-Wood looks forward to welcoming Dali, da Vinci and some anarchic angels
 
Art Gallery gets a jumper for Chris...
Natalie Bradbury visits Levenshulme's Shed Gallery for the season's weirdest art happening
 
‘From Space’ shop and Laura White a...
Thalia Allington-Wood becomes the princess of single evening art-shopping and Gallery-going
Manchester and New York: visit this...
Thalia Allington-Wood lives and loves a great new exhibition from Jan Chlebik
 
A Long Exposure: 100 Years of Guard...
Natalie Bradbury sees life through the lens of Guardian photographers
 
Emory Douglas at Urbis
Natalie Bradbury stalks the Black Panthers though glass towers
 
art08
Who won what in the big arts shindig in Liverpool including the daftest artwork name ever
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