Manchester’s sexy car parks

Car parks are usually uninspiring, dull buildings. But Manchester has some that are totally hot… READ MORE BELOW

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Manchester’s New Bailey area is a new architectural development featuring housing, restaurants and other amenities.

And yes, multi-storey car parks. But they’re not the featureless lumps that usually pass off as car lots. One is encased in a compelling beehive structure, the other is a medley of candy-coloured stripes and lattice panelling.

They’re certainly sexy to photograph. And walking back from my shoot, I stumbled across another car park in the Spinningfields district, clad in a compelling metal of pink blush.

4 thoughts on “Manchester’s sexy car parks”

ckponderings on September 20, 2020 at 10:01 said:

It’s all about finding beauty in the ordinary, the unexpected, the overlooked. Lovely photography, Mike! :)

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- mikeosbornphoto on September 20, 2020 at 10:10 said:
  
  Thank you Richard :) I’d never have expected to find such architectural ingenuity in something as banal as a car park building!
  
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  - ckponderings on September 26, 2020 at 09:23 said:
    
    Haha! Slowly but surely you’re coming down to my level! ;)
    
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    - mikeosbornphoto on September 26, 2020 at 09:27 said:
      
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