Manchester reinvented: Libeskind, Simpson, Arup, Wilford and Hopkins.
http://www.hughpearman.com/articles3/manchester.html


Anyone been recently?

I was there last summer and the absence of cranes (but abundance of empty sites) was surprising. It looks like most of those buildings are either in design or early construction though.

I guess Dublin leads you to expect a skyline where the most dominant features are cranes.