Modernist Delights

A triptych of buildings at the UMIST campus, Manchester, 2024

A multi-story building complex under a gray, overcast sky. The foreground features modern, white-and-black structures with many windows and metal staircases. Behind them, a taller, older concrete tower rises, flanked by a red-brick building.

UMIST Gardening Club, Manchester, 2024

A metal sign with faded, hard-to-read text is mounted on a dirty, weathered surface. Black graffiti in thick strokes obscures much of the sign, but faint text about gardening club opening hours is partially visible behind the spray paint.

UMIST Gardening Club
Opening hours
12-30 to 1-15
Wednesday and Friday

Renold Building, Manchester, 2024

A modern, gray office building with many windows and an external glass stairwell stands under a cloudy sky. In the foreground, a leafless tree with a few yellow leaves is visible. Other buildings can be seen in the background.

My beloved 🥰

St Luke’s Parish Church, Wythenshawe, Manchester, 2024

Interior of a modern church with tall white walls, vertical windows letting in natural light, and exposed ceiling beams. At the far end is a large religious artwork featuring a sunburst design and figures, above an altar with candles. Warm lights line the walls.

A clock with a black face and gold hands sits in the center of a wooden star-shaped frame mounted on a red wall beneath a railing and near a window, seen from a low angle. The clock shows the time as 12:04.

A window with a geometric pattern of red and black frames, featuring vertical and horizontal bars, set in a cream brick wall. The glass panes are translucent with a textured, ribbed surface, letting in diffused light. A dark room is visible to the left.

A gray metal door with a round porthole window is partially open in a dim hallway with white brick walls, a black doormat, and visible pipes above. Light shines onto the concrete floor from the doorway, while a radiator is seen in the darker adjoining room.

A pentagonal niche with yellow trim set in a dark brick wall holds a three-dimensional, translucent, white star-shaped object that reflects light.

A padded kneeler with blue fabric and rainbow trim sits before a red metal communion rail with a black top inside a church. The rail is on a dark carpeted floor, and wooden steps and platforms are visible in the background.

A triptych of buildings in Wythenshawe, Manchester, 2024

A view of three modern office buildings with rectangular windows and concrete exteriors under a partly cloudy sky. The glass windows reflect the blue sky and clouds. A tree branch enters the frame from the right side.

A narrow, barred window set in a textured concrete wall with vertical lines. The window has a metal grille and wire mesh, and is bordered by two wider windows with similar grilles. Fallen leaves and grass are visible at the base along the concrete sidewalk.

An entrance to a modern building, featuring a glass double door and glass side panels, topped by a flat black canopy. The wall above is covered with square, brown tiles, and the ceiling above is concrete with visible patterns.

Office building in Wythenshawe, Manchester, 2024

A large, multi-story office building with numerous windows, some dirty or covered. Banners advertise legal services for medical negligence, accident at work, and disrepair. A fence and blue sky with clouds are visible at the bottom and top of the image.

Housing Disrepair? Yeah, I BET!

Geometric altar at St Andrew’s Methodist Church, Wythenshawe, Manchester, 2024

A church altar against a tall wooden-paneled wall with a large wooden cross in the center. The altar has two white candles and a cross, with a flower arrangement on the left and a wooden podium on the right. The floor is covered in red carpet.

Partition detail at St Anthony’s Church in Wythenshawe, Manchester, 2024

A metal grid with rectangular patterns separates the viewer from wooden pews in a sunlit church interior. Light streams through tall, stained-glass windows, illuminating beige tiled walls and a small religious icon in the background.

Door detail ♦️ at St Anthony’s Church in Wythenshawe, Manchester, 2024

A pair of dark brown, textured metal double doors with small diamond-shaped windows, set in a weathered stone or concrete frame. The doors have a central rectangular metal push plate, and rivets are visible along the door surface.

On M62 reservoirs

Steve could make a wet reservoir look good 😍 And does! This is really interesting actually, despite living in Manchester once upon a time I didn’t realise how much earthworks the M62 required until I saw it written down all in one place.

Several Yorkshire Reservoirs

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