SOME NEW MANCHESTER BUILDINGS
In Manchester, just as in other great cities, the scale of the new buildings greatly exceeds that of the old. Some weeks ago we illustrated in this Journal the great structure designed by Mr. H. S. Fairhurst for the Manchester Ship Canal Company, and another by the same architect, nearly as important, called Blackfriars House. In the present issue we show some more examples of buildings which are helping to set the scale of the new City.
Let us begin by examining the imposing new block recently erected for Messrs. Lewis, Ltd., to the designs of Messrs. T. W. Beaumont & Sons, in the island site bounded by Fountain Street, Market Street, Marble
Street, and West Mosley Street. The conformation of this lay-out illustrates an important modern tendency in commercial architecture, namely, the tendency of great business houses to acquire sites bounded upon all sides by roads, so that they not only obtain the maximum of street frontage, and the publicity and advertising value attaching thereto, but they are also enabled to utilise very large areas of floor space. This species of economic development is, of course, only possible where there is free employment of artificial illumination, which would be especially necessary in the present instance where parts of the floor area are no less than 100 feet distant from the nearest window.
TORTWORTH HOUSE, MANCHESTER.
Messrs. Halliday, Paterson & Agate, Architects.
In Manchester, just as in other great cities, the scale of the new buildings greatly exceeds that of the old. Some weeks ago we illustrated in this Journal the great structure designed by Mr. H. S. Fairhurst for the Manchester Ship Canal Company, and another by the same architect, nearly as important, called Blackfriars House. In the present issue we show some more examples of buildings which are helping to set the scale of the new City.
Let us begin by examining the imposing new block recently erected for Messrs. Lewis, Ltd., to the designs of Messrs. T. W. Beaumont & Sons, in the island site bounded by Fountain Street, Market Street, Marble
Street, and West Mosley Street. The conformation of this lay-out illustrates an important modern tendency in commercial architecture, namely, the tendency of great business houses to acquire sites bounded upon all sides by roads, so that they not only obtain the maximum of street frontage, and the publicity and advertising value attaching thereto, but they are also enabled to utilise very large areas of floor space. This species of economic development is, of course, only possible where there is free employment of artificial illumination, which would be especially necessary in the present instance where parts of the floor area are no less than 100 feet distant from the nearest window.
TORTWORTH HOUSE, MANCHESTER.
Messrs. Halliday, Paterson & Agate, Architects.