In more than 13,000 square meters, the new cultural venue for Factory International – the institution that organizes the Manchester International Festival every two years – is designed to accommodate all kinds of performing arts.
The new headquarters of Factory International, organizer of the Manchester International Festival (MIF), has been completed. A work of OMA / Ellen van Loon, it responds to an eclectic environment – amid industrial brick constructions, towers, housing
With a palette of simple and honest materials, the articulation of the form and a clear structural expression on the facade, the design seeks to create a flexible environment for learning and research that reveals what happens inside... [+]
Norman Foster has built and now inaugurated a Maggie’s Centre in his native city of Manchester. The new service for counseling patients of cancer – with which the British architect was diagnosed over a decade ago – is part of a network of facilities
In an area of Manchester known as New Islington, the image of which is dominated by the crossing canals and by the built remains from the industrial era, this is the first residential building that has gone up in a long time. The three elongated and
Deyan Sudjic Manchester is a big, confident city, but an oddly shapeless one. It was the city in which Engels documented the living conditions of the world’s first industrial proletariat, the British working class, forged in Manchester’s explosive tr
The Japanese artist has created a body of work that may look innocent but is loaded with a complex universe of obsessions, fears, and traumas.
The library of Manchester is arguably one of the most important buildings of my life in terms of influence. There I disovered Le Corbusier’s Towards a New Architecture, the work of Henry-Russell Hitchcock on Frank Lloyd Wright… I discovered those wor
The financial crisis has to a large extent discredited the model of huge real estate and urbanistic operations associated with the construction of icons, yet in truth, day after day, projects of this kind continue to proliferate from one end of the w
On another notice, the work of the artist and designer Gerry Judah, born in Calcutta in 1951 and based in London, represents the effects of wars and natural disasters on the urban landscape through three-dimensional compositions that explore the boun
I was interested win architecture and design from school, and probably like a lot of boys, I was interested in model aircraft, construction kits, making models, meccano... all those things. I have also been interested in sketching and drawing for as
