Down in Fallowfield opposite Platt Fields is this slightly surreal looking education edifice, built between 1958 and 1960. Called the Hollings Building, quelle surprise, it has always been known to every Mancunian as the Toast Rack.
Until this
summer it belonged to Manchester Metropolitan University. Luckily listed, what
will become of it next is yet to be decided. It even has its own dedicated blog which details
its final academic year and comes up with plenty other archival and interesting
items on the building.
I worked here for a month or so several summers ago, in the Faculty of Food, Clothing and Hospitality Management. It was an intriguing building on the inside as well as out, with the staff offices on the top floor
rather small and almost attic like, as the building reached its apex. Another
good blog post on it at Nothing To
See Here.
Manchester's most distinctive building? Best example of modernism? As you say, thank goodness it's listed and let's hope a good use can be found for it. It gives good photo from all kinds of angles and I was lucky enough to go on a Manchester Modernist Society (they do the blog) tour earlier this year and we went to the top of the stairs to the roof giving an opportunity to get great shots of the rack itself. Like your Warhol treatment...the building is certainly a south Manchester icaon.
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Have a nice day! Cath.
Great looking building.
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ReplyDeleteAn important looking building!
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Wil, ABCW Team.
Love the 'Toast Rack' architecture...and your colorful collage!
ReplyDeleteI love the multi-color palette!
ReplyDeleteROG, ABC Wednesday team
Nice building, great presentation!
ReplyDeleteLove how you've put the "Toast Rack" into a Warhol-like montage.
ReplyDeleteLeslie
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Great post. I love the editing. My sister studied here in 1960! (She is much older than me :) )
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