Featured Building: MMU Hollings Building
The Hollings Building, more commonly known as ‘The Toast Rack’ is one of Manchester’s most striking buildings.
It was designed by architect L C Howitt, and completed in 1960. It is actually intended to look like a toast rack, a visual pun arising from its use as a college of catering.
Artist and architecture critic Michael Trainor nominated the Hollings Building as one of his personal favourites. See the BBC Manchester website and a useful run-down of the history of the Toast Rack by MEN journalist Susan Press on the Manchester Online site.