The expansion of Manchester's residential city centre does really feel like there has been a complete failure of planning control. The skyline has become so rapidly dominated by these 50-storey rectangular glass and steel blocks, that it feels like they've just been chucked out of the window of a passing spacecraft like a handful of sci-fi garbage. And why are so many of them designed by a single architectural practice, Simpson Haugh? They all look like they've been produced off by an under-trained AI engine: just all variations of the bland, uninspiring Beetham Tower. And we're stuck with them.
The expansion of Manchester's residential city centre does really feel like there has been a complete failure of planning control. The skyline has become so rapidly dominated by these 50-storey rectangular glass and steel blocks, that it feels like they've just been chucked out of the window of a passing spacecraft like a handful of sci-fi garbage. And why are so many of them designed by a single architectural practice, Simpson Haugh? They all look like they've been produced off by an under-trained AI engine: just all variations of the bland, uninspiring Beetham Tower. And we're stuck with them.