Not modernist, but I like how this one turned out.
Stockport Exchange Station Car Park, 2024
#car fortress
Sun-dappled car fortress in the Northern Quarter, Manchester, 2025
This doesn’t qualify as modernist, or even really as a delight, but it made me laugh how something so thoroughly modern and utilitarian masquerades itself amongst the Northern Quarter’s Victorian mills and factories with the use of red brick. A concept long forgotten in Manchester’s development-mania, of course, with everything now built out of steel, concrete, glass, and cladding.
Textured concrete in Manchester, 2025
Angel Way car park, Romford, 2024
It has all the mod-cons a car park needs:
- Season tickets available
- Business parking available
- “Video surveillance”
- Faded red detailing
Harbourside beauty in Weymouth, 2024
Spiral multi-storey, Romford, 2024
Goes to a new place; immediately goes down a back street and finds a car park.
Manors Car Park, Newcastle, 2019
Here’s another photo of Manors Car Park from a previous trip. I am absolutely devoid of any photographic talent, or even skills (if any of the photos on this blog don’t have my fingers in the frame, it’s only because I cropped them out), but in this moment the shot just lined up right. Even the since-removed sign for the Metro Radio Arena looks right. I like it so much it’s been my iPad wallpaper for years.
Manors Car Park, Newcastle, 2024
Manors has to be my favourite car park yet. This wasn’t my first visit to it, of course, I don’t decide my favourite car parks on a whim! I’ve used this phrase before, I’m sure, but there’s just something pleasantly geometric about the whole space — not just the upright and cross beams of the car park itself, which repeat in such a mesmerising pattern, but how it fits into the space, too, and how the A167(M), the junction off it, and the pedestrian foot bridge (which affords great views of the car park) fits around its curves too. We were lucky to see it just as the sun came out after a rather grey morning, it looked extra beautiful.
The plaque at the entrance says “Manors Car Park — The first civic multi-storey car park in Newcastle Upon Tyne was opened on 27th July 1971 by Alderman Arthur Grey, leader of the city council.”
John Lewis car park, Sheffield, 2024
Pleasingly rectangular car park round the back of the old John Lewis in Sheffield. Angles so sharp I feel like I could cut myself on its’ corners. Tile-mania continues, too!