Buildings I bang on about

Gareth Pemberton

@garethp_fixes

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IT by trade, architecture nerd by habit, and Chorlton born and bred, so I've got opinions on brick and glass same as I do on pints and plumbers. These are the Manchester buildings I actually stop and look at, rated out of ten, because 'nice building' isn't a review.

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Name	Building	Address	City	Rating /10	Verdict
1Beetham Tower	Beetham Tower	301 Deansgate	Manchester	8/10	Splits opinion like a derby day pub argument. Hums in the wind like it's got something to say. Honestly though, you can't argue with a skyline-definer.
2Manchester Central Library	Manchester Central Library	St Peter's Square	Manchester	9/10	A Roman temple for borrowing paperbacks, which is exactly my kind of building. The Wolfson Reading Room alone is worth the walk into town.
3John Rylands Library	John Rylands Library	150 Deansgate	Manchester	9/10	Neo-Gothic showing off, basically. Feels like you've wandered into a cathedral and someone's left a Gutenberg Bible lying about. Stunning, honestly though.
4Manchester Town Hall	Manchester Town Hall	Albert Square	Manchester	9/10	Victorian confidence in stone form. Waterhouse clearly wasn't short on ambition. Worth a nosy whenever it's open to the public.
5Chetham's Library	Chetham's Library	Long Millgate	Manchester	8/10	Fifteenth-century sandstone tucked behind the cathedral, easy to walk past without noticing. Marx and Engels sat here plotting. Properly atmospheric, honestly though.