| 29 March 2008, 3:57 pm |
Channel M have installed a webcam inside the MEN Arena so the whole world can watch the construction of the swimming pools for the World Championships in just over a weeks time. It’s great entertainment… the pools have been constructed and the lighting is now the main focus of attention. The webcam will make a good animated gif once it is finished… I have been saving an image per day…
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| 27 March 2008, 8:35 pm |
I’m ready for the influx of new tall buildings planned for Manchester. I have photographed all the sites as they are now and will return to the sites as work progresses over the next few years. For the initial images, it will be a case of spot the space where the building will go and look at all the empty sky!
The first building to be featured is the proposed Albany Crown Tower, which will comprise 44 floors. To be built on the site of the derelict former Department of Employment building on Aytoun Street in Central Manchester. The building currently located there was featured as Manchester Architecture #48, a little while ago.
Financial difficulties it seems have delayed the start of works, demolition of the existing building was planned for 2006 with the new tower expected to be completed during 2008. As is plain to see, the old building still remains.
For information on the new building, the developers have a website full of information – Albany Crown.
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| 25 March 2008, 8:22 pm |
I’ve found a few quaint side streets to the rear of the former Express Newspapers building over in Ancoats. I have seen small terraces of this nature in Chester, but never in Manchester. The rows of houses run perpendicular to Cornell Street.
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| 20 March 2008, 7:55 pm |
If you recognise straight away the name Hermann Hauser then there is an exhibition planned for next year down in London at the Science Museum that sounds well worth visiting.
I suppose the BBC micro could be considered as the i-pod of the very early 1980′s… and to think at the time I wanted a Dragon 32 instead!! I still have my BBC B in full working order (although the “7″ key sticks a bit and could do with stripping down and cleaning). Mine had an additional 32k SRAM (Wooo!!) and eventually I upgraded from cassette storage to not just a single 5.25″ drive, but a double 5.25″ floppy drive! I still get it out now and again to play Elite, CHOLO, Chuckie Egg and Space Pilot…
| 17 March 2008, 9:19 pm |
I’ve always like this floor, it is essentially nowdays just a large exam hall but has seen use as a sports hall. It is the top floor in the more modern easterly section of the building. Rumour has it that this floor was constructed originally to house a large swimming pool, only the engineers it seems forgot to include the mass of the volume of water in the initial structural calculations. The mistake was only discovered when the building was completed. By then it was decided the structure wouldn’t be strong enough to support the additional weight and the swimming pool idea was shelved. Whether true or not, it is an interesting story – one which all UMIST students learned during their times there.
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