Next Tour: When Boris says it’s okay. Booking: With eventbrite. Waterhouse, Worthington. Walters, Wood, Wilson, Womersley…and those are just the Ws. We will walk around the city, admiring the key buildings, citing the great and not-so-great architects. Waterhouse is of course Alfred, designer of the Town Hall and a surprising building in what is now Chinatown. Worthington is Thomas who …
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Next tour: Sometime in 2020, we hope. Meet: Visitor Centre, Piccadilly Gardens, time tbc. The two most powerful influences on 20th century architecture were the American Frank Lloyd Wright and the Swiss Charles Edouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier (“the crow”). Wright believed in working in harmony with nature, brilliantly seen in Fallingwater, the rural retreat he …
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Next FREE tour: Wednesday 29 March 2023, 11am. Meet: outside St Ann’s Church. St Ann Street. Booking: Please press here to register with Eventbrite. Thoroughly-detailed and wonderfully enlightening tours of Manchester’s greatest art treasures, from the baldacchino in the Central Library Reading Room and the reasons for its existence, which include the most wonderful links …
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“Concrete Jungle”, the modern architecture tour, has been subsumed into “Le Corbusier’s Manchester” for now. Please see Walks & Tours