This photo is of the Co-operative Group's new HQ on Miller Street. An ethical bank seems a rarity these days and the Co-op bank has been inundated with applications for new accounts from people leaving the scandal-hit high street banks.
Another ethical Mancunian stalwart is the bearded Bury band Elbow, whose song The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver is a regular on their summer festival sets. A lovely, lilting and melancholic piece, according to Elbow's Gus Garvey it's a true tale about "a tower crane driver in a bar who began the night boasting about how well paid he was and how much he loved his job. He ended the night crying into his beer with loneliness. Ambition, if pursued to the cost of everything else, can leave you high, dry and lonely."
My Smitten by Britain guest post for this month is titled London’s Austerity Olympics...of 1948. Part of it is adapted from a book I was co-author of: Wembley: Stadium of Legends (Tomsett & Brand, Dewi Lewis Media, Manchester, 2007).
More Skywatch Friday posts.
I think it's a modern architecture, very different that I see around my place.
ReplyDeleteI like the angle in this picture, you did a great shot!
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It's a l o n g way up. On the plus side, at least the Lonely Tower Crane Driver has spectacular views to enjoy!
ReplyDeleteThat's quite a building. He better keep it together. Looks like a lot of glass there. hahaha
ReplyDeleteChrissy I love this image. Massive but very interesting. Have a great weekend.
ReplyDeleteYikes ! that would be nothing for me ! I get already dizzy on the 2nd floor lol !
ReplyDeleteI don't think I want to be a tower crane driver! This looks like it's going to be a good looking building when completed.
ReplyDeleteGreat shot!! Boom & Gary of the Vermilon River, Canada.
ReplyDeleteThat will be an impressive building, but somehow I expect 'ethical' banks to look less flashy these days, perhaps it will have a turf roof!!
ReplyDeleteIt will be solar powered- their current HQ in teh same street is the biggest solar powered building in Europe ;-)
DeleteThoughtful story, which will remain in me thoughts for a while.
ReplyDeletePlease have a good weekend.
Great shot. That's a cool building.
ReplyDeleteWhat an amazing building!
ReplyDeleteIt looks like a ship going out to sea.
Hopefully it will not be piloted [nor the bank operated] by Capt. Francesco Schettino.
We don't want to one day see this beautiful thing sideways on the street!
Ethic bank feels like an oxymoron these days - the co-op is the kind of grass roots organisation we should cherish!
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