A lil competition from the BBC to celebrate Architecture Week 2005...

Courtesy of BBC Manchester (http://eb.cx/4b):
Architecture Week 2005
Greater Manchester has some great buildings that aren’t always appreciated by the casual passer-by. So for this year’s Architecture Week you’ve got a chance to take a closer look at some of those buildings you take for granted.

'Open Up' is providing the public with a chance to gain access to a selection of wonderfully designed buildings and learn about how they were created.

But we want you to stop and think about buildings you pass every day on your way to work or school or down to the shops.

We've identified ten stunning buildings in Greater Manchester and we want you to be as creative as possible photographing them. The best ones will be featured in one of our galleries.

So get snapping! You can send your pictures as prints to Richard Fair, BBC GMR, PO Box 951, Oxford Road, Manchester M60 1SD (sorry we can not return them unless you provide a stamped addressed envelope), by e-mail to manchester.online@bbc.co.uk or you can send them by picture text to 07704 277549.

Remember, be creative, get up close, snap something that catches your eye or simply shoot from the hip!

The buildings we want you to photograph are:
Bury - Bury Market Hall
Bolton- Reebok Stadium
Manchester - Hidden Gem Church
Oldham - Gallery Oldham
Rochdale - Rochdale Town Hall
Salford - Shopping Centre
Stockport - Pyramid
Tameside - Hyde Bus station
Trafford - Imperial War Museum
Wigan - Haigh Hall

Happy snapping! And remember to let us know your name and which building you've photographed.

If you'd like to find pout more information about the places you can visit for Architecture Week check out their website using the link on the right. And listen to BBC GMR all next week for some interesting features about the buildings of Great Manchester.
Why did I post it as a new thread instead of just in the Official Manchester one? I thought it might be nice for people to post any pics they submit in here, or pictures of any buildings they should have included but didn't.

What's the betting this thread dies with about 1 post... :runaway:

We've identified ten stunning buildings in Greater Manchester and we want you to be as creative as possible photographing them. The best ones will be featured in one of our galleries.


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Salford - Shopping Centre

:lol:

So who's the loon at the BBC?

This however, is a cracker. And many people don't know where she (even if she exists) is or even how to get to her. And she's even nicer inside.

http://www.lookingatbuildings.org.uk/img_hr/Manchester_St_Mary.jpg

Not really much space to get a photo though. Not one that hasn't already been done.

Her insides:

http://www.chrysostom.org/andrew/pilgrimage/images/hidden-gem-inside.jpg

:lol:

So who's the loon at the BBC?
What are you implying? A glorious bit of architecture... Easily the best Salford has to offer. :lol:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/content/images/2005/06/15/salford_shopping_city_150_150x180.jpg

They should have picked the hall.

They could have even picked Eccles town hall. They could have picked soemthing in Worsely. They could have picked the Lowry. The could have picked the Peel Park buildings of the University. The old Rex Cinema on Chapel Street. They could have picked the swinging aquaduct. The list could go on.

But no, some loon goes and picks a huge concrete lump. Daft place, because it looks like a glass covered arcade inside. Maybe that's what they are after. The lowerclasses humping ton loads of Iceland bags around trying to avoid the scallys. :ohno:

Daft place, because it looks like a glass covered arcade inside. Maybe that's what they are after. The lowerclasses humping ton loads of Iceland bags around trying to avoid the scallys. :ohno:
Well they have images on the page I linked to. One of the images is the one I posted above, so it would seem they actually DO mean the tower!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/content/images/2005/06/15/hyde_bus_station_203_203x152.jpg
Hyde bus station

http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/content/images/2005/06/15/imperial_war_museum_north_b_180x150.jpg
IWM North

http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/content/images/2005/06/15/salford_shopping_city_150_150x180.jpg
Salford Shopping City

Used to walk through that place, and then through Langworthy at 8 to 9pm every night for four years on my way home from University for almost 4 years.

Never got mugged once. As far as I could tell, the scallys always had this strange trick, which was "Got the time mate"; when you actually told them in a local accent they left you well alone, even gangs of them, poor OOTer students.

Used to walk through that place, and then through Langworthy at 8 to 9pm every night for four years on my way home from University for almost 4 years.

Never got mugged once. As far as I could tell, the scallys always had this strange trick, which was "Got the time mate"; when you actually told them in a local accent they left you well alone, even gangs of them, poor OOTer students.


With you on that mate, i lived 1 min away from there and whenever i got asked i put on a strong manc accent and never got bothered, plus i always wore a cap so it always worked.

Still a shithole though!

From the bbc:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/content/articles/2005/06/22/architecture_week_people_places_feature.shtml

My favourite view
For Architecture Week we've asked five prominent figures to tell us what their favourite views are in Greater Manchester.

Tom Bloxham
Tom is Chairman of Urban Splash and patron of Architecture Week. Tom has chosen Castlefield.

"Castlefield Basin is fantastic. You've got all sorts of things going on. You've got the canal network, you've got the roads and railways, all on different levels, all coming next to each other.

"In particular I like the great Victorian iron viaducts that come crashing through the city at high level."

Felicity Goodey
Felicity is the past Chairman of the Lowry but now Chairs the new urban regeneration company for Salford.

"My favourite view is from the bridge over the Manchester Ship Canal which joins the Lowry on the one side with the Imperial War Museum on the other.

"I think these are two of the most important and beautiful pieces of modern architecture in the whole of the country today."

Len Grant
Len is photographer who specialises in photographing regeneration in Manchester.

"There's really two views at this point - the corner of Redhills Street and Bengal Street. One is looking down Redhills Street with the Rochdale Canal on one side and two massive mills on the other side.

"On the other side, looking across the canal you can see a swathe of land that will be New Islington which will be a Millennium community project."

Michael Trainor

Michael is a full time artist and can currently be seen as one of the experts on BBC 1's 20th Century Roadshow.

"My favourite architectural view of Manchester is the part of Wilmslow Road known as the Curry Mile. It's probably only about half a mile long so it's a bit over-blown and exaggerated, but that kind of sums up this little strip of road.

"Architecturally speaking it's not actually very exciting, but what's happened, since the early 1970's there has developed a culture of Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi - all sorts of Asian curry shops. With this has come what's become a quite frenetic light show."

Anthony Wilson

Anthony describes himself as someone who 'hangs around with clever people in Manchester'.

"My favourite view by a mile is a fairly new view made available by the new glass atrium, and if you ascend the lifts at the Manchester Art Gallery and look out to the North you get this wonderful view of what is exotically named Town Hall extension.
"The most remarkable building, the most beautifully shaped roof line. Everything about it is magnificent. But you have never seen it properly until this last few years because of this new art gallery extension.
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Shame they haven't shown many photos, interesting nonetheless.

Huh. All old hat.

I get off at Crescent now and again, and walk down Cross Lane, carrying my butties in a student-looking backpack. I've, as yet, had no mither, but have been asked the time (a favourite trick of our Scouse cousins too, esp. at football). If I'm walking down and see a couple of Scallies approach, I think "fucking hell, here we go". As yet, nowts happened though. I'm in my mid 20's now and am looking less like a student.