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Mercure Manchester Piccadilly Hotel, Piccadilly Plaza, 2025

A narrow city street is flanked by modern buildings with glass and concrete façades. At the end, a tall, blocky hotel with the sign “Mercure Hotel” rises over a skybridge and flyovers, under a cloudy, grey sky. The street is empty and wet.
A modern, multi-storey building with Mercure Hotel in red letters on a cantilevered section. The structure has large windows and geometric shapes. Another tall building, City Tower, is visible in the background under a cloudy sky. People walk on the wet street below.

One of my favourite buildings in Manchester, one which I photograph almost every time I pass (dangerously so for my camera roll, given I used to live in the Northern Quarter) – and I’m really happy with how these ones have turned out.

From January 2026, our hotel will be undergoing a full room refurbishment to enhance your stay. Renovations will be carried out in phases, so only a portion of bedrooms will be unavailable at any given time. All other services, including breakfast, dining, and room service, will continue as usual.

Excellent! I keep meaning to stay there. What appear from afar to be slender-framed aluminium windows, though obviously attractive from outside, do not suggest a cosy indoor environment.

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Baynard House, City of London, 2025

A building with 4 floors of continuous thin-framed aluminium windows, as well as vertical ribbed concrete between each floor. At the bottom, a series of metal horizontal vents and an entrance to an underground carpark.

The building was designed by William Holford incorporating a separation of pedestrians from streets, with a first-floor adjoining walkway along Queen Victoria Street that connects to Blackfriars station.

Baynard House, London – Wikipedia

Streets in the sky! Definitely one to go back to. It is, however, a nightmare to photograph, owing to the coach parking out front.

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Oxford Botanic Garden, 2025

A view of the inside of a glasshouse showing a metal and glass frame structure. The glass panels are foggy and streaked with water, indicating humidity or recent rain. Some green plants are visible in the lower left corner. The sky outside looks overcast.
A glass glasshouse surrounded by lush green plants sits under a cloudy sky. In the background, a tall, historic stone tower with pointed spires rises above the trees. The scene appears calm and overcast.
Tall, spiky cacti and leafy plants grow inside a large glasshouse with metal framework and glass panes. The sky appears grey outside, and the silhouette of the plants is prominent against the light filtering through the glass roof.

It’s not modernist, I realise that, but I have a weakness for thin-framed aluminium windows, especially where plants are involved.

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