Eye On Manchester

1) Ah yes, it’s the Town Hall, Albert Square Manchester, and the ball represents the sun, which shines on all places where Manchester has trade!

2) The zig zag windows belong to City Tower, also known by its old name, the Sunley Tower, which has recently been renovated.

3) It’s the Bridgewater Hall! You may not have seen it from this angle before, but this is the view from the Beetham Tower.

4) Urbis, Manchester’s museum of the city, looks different in snow. It could have been the railway station at Manchester Airport, but it isn’t!

5) The City of Manchester Stadium is supported by a set of poles and wires. Did you think it was the Calatrava or Trinity Bridge? I thought not!

6) The Urban Splash sales office - a daring vision of an idealised hi-tech fantasy, or a giant fig roll on stilts, depending on your point of view. It stands next to Egerton St, the A57 at the west end of the Mancunian Way.

7) Hexagon House, buiilt in 1971, has also been known by the names of the companies who have occupied it, including ICI who built it, and most recently Avecia. It’s in Blackley north Manchester.

The wind turbine is on the roof of the Green Building. There’s another similar turbine in the Northern Quarter. This is the view from Wakefield St below Oxford Rd station off Oxford St.

9) The Manchester United Old Trafford stadium, one of Manchester’s most famous buildings. The imposing high tech northern facade appeared in the late 1990s and retains the statue of Matt Busby which was on the earlier structure.

10) It’s the Edge Building in Salford, not Number One Deansgate, which is just a stone’s throw across the Irwell.

11) The gazebo-like rooftop feature is on the dome of the Corn Exchange, renamed the Triangle, built in the mid-1900s. It’s not the nearby Barton Arcade, and certainly not the Victoria Buildings which were destroyed in the 1940s.

12) You won’t see any clothes hanging up to dry on this structure as it’s the rooftop blade on the Beetham Tower, here still without the glass panes which have yet to be installed.

13) The tiles are covering the CIS Tower, and they’re solar tiles, part of the multi-million pound Solar Tower project.

14) The Fiery Lady is on the exterior of the Old Fire Station fronting London Rd opposite Piccadilly Station. She is one of a group of three maidens above and to the left of the entrance. Another three are to the right.