The latest architecture, design and art news from the booming English city in the north
Italian artist Nico Vascellari has opened a portal to a mystical world for a new exhibition in Manchester, where he has installed his haunting Bus de la Lum in the Whitworth’s Landscape Gallery. The mysterious place from which the work...
We imagine post-war Britain in black-and-white; all pea-soupers and dust still settling after the Blitz in the Capital and everywhere else a provincial smudge and belching smoke. The British home, what you could see of it though the Player’s cigarette...
In the first exhibition since its reopening, Manchester Art Gallery’s newly restored Design Gallery has been filled with over a hundred pieces of modern Japanese costume, furniture and crafts collections. Formerly a 19th century Athenaeum theatre space, the Grade II...
The regeneration of a 25-acre brownfield site in Manchester has been given an international boost, with the release of OMA’s winning designs for a new arts venue. The £110m venue, called The Manchester Factory, will sit in the St John’s...
One doesn’t have to look too far beneath the compact, modern façade of the new £61m National Graphene Institute to discover a thoughtful expression of the ideal that education and scientific research should be an open, transparent process. Occupying...
Fresh from its MUMA renovation, unveiled earlier this year, Manchester’s Whitworth Gallery is currently playing host to an exhibition of textiles that make the crossover from the realm of craft into fine art. Featuring artists such as Magdalena Abakanowicz, Tracey Emin, Grayson...
Maggie’s, the pioneering cancer charity that provides uplifting spaces for cancer patients, their families and friends to seek practical, emotional and social support, is adding to its critically acclaimed portfolio of dignified design, with a second centre proposed for Greater...
McDonalds has never looked so appealing to me than in 2007, when, exhausted from traipsing around north London, I remembered the US chain had just rolled out its experimental redesign. I hadn’t eaten in 16 hours, and a cherry-red as-yet-unstained...
Six UK buildings have been shortlisted for the coveted annual RIBA Stirling Prize. The award, now in its landmark 20th year, is the UK’s highest architectural accolade for the most original, imaginative and well-executed designs, and – drum roll! –...
The air is sweet and the sun is beating down on the Whitworth Art Gallery, Britain’s newly crowned Museum of the Year. It takes some reminding that we’re in Manchester – the only place to be this week if you are...
Marking its tenth year, the Art Fund Prize has named Manchester’s Whitworth Art Gallery the Museum of the Year. The venue beat off an impressive shortlist, including Oxford University Museum of National History and London’s Imperial War Museums, to the £100,000...
Despite the poor economic climate of recent years, Manchester’s art scene is getting a boost from some welcome funding. Home, a new £25m arts complex set to open in May, has been designed by Mecanoo, the same Dutch practice who...
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