Architects and Buildings
Below is a list of some of the main
architects who have worked in the city and some of their buildings.
Where categorisable, the style of building has been included after
the entry.
Older buildings where there are no recorded architect
have been omitted. For further reading try Manchester by
Clare Hartwell, an updated and very readable book from the Pevsner
Architectural Guides, Penguin, £9.99, and Manchester:
An Architectural History by John Parkinson-Bailey published
by Manchester University Press, £20.
James Wyatt, Heaton Hall (1770s), elegant
classicism with Robert Adam-like detailing. Richard Lane, Salford
Old Town Hall (1831) off Chapel Street, Chorlton on Medlock
Town Hall (1831) at All Saints, now part of the Metropolitan
University, and the Friends' Meeting House (1830), Mount
Street - Grecian. Thomas Harrison, Portico Library (1806),
Mosley Street - Grecian again.
Charles Barry, City Art Gallery (1835),
formerly Manchester Royal Institution - Grecian, Stand Church (1822),
Whitefield - Gothic, The Athenaeum (1837), Princess Street, now
part of the Art Gallery - Italian Renaissance. C.R. Cockerell's
sturdy Bank of England (1846), now offices on King Street, very
free and 
personal Grecian building. Edward Walters, Brown's Warehouse
(1851), Portland Street, The Free Trade Hall (1856), Peter Street,
The Royal Bank of Scotland (1860), Mosely Street - Renaissance
palazzo style. J.E. Gregan, Heywood's Bank and Manager's Office
(1848), now Royal Bank of Scotland, St Ann's Street and the Mechanics
Institute (1854), now the archive of the National Museum of Labour
History, Princess Street - also palazzo style. Travis and Magnall,
Watts Warehouse(1858), now the Britannia Hotel, the greatest of
the cotton warehouses, a cornucopia of architectural styles including
Italian, French, 
Elizabethan and even Egyptian motifs.
Alfred Waterhouse, Manchester Town Hall (1877), Strangeways, now Manchester Prison (1868), and the University (1887) - all Gothic. Later in his career he started the Refuge Assurance Building (1891-1912), now the Palace Hotel, Oxford Road, in a free Italianate style, it was largely completed by his son, Paul.
Thomas Worthington, Albert
Memorial (1862), the Jubilee Fountain (1897),
the 
Memorial Hall (1866), now the Square Albert pub, Police
Court (1875), Minshull Street, now Crown Courts - all
Gothic.
Edward Salomans, the Reform Club (1870/1)
- Venetian Gothic, Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue (1874),
now the Jewish Museum, Cheetham Hill Road - Moorish. Basil
Chamneys, John Rylands Library (1900) - Gothic.
Bradshaw, Gass and Hope,
the Royal Exchange (1921), Cross Street - Classical. Charles
Trubshaw, the Midland Hotel (1903), Peter Street. Charles
Heathcote, the Eagle Star Building
(1911),
Cross Street, Lloyd's Bank (1915), King Street, and Parrs
Bank (1902), York Street, (now the Athenaeum) - Edwardian
Baroque. Harry S Fairhurst, Lancaster House and India
House (both 1906), Whitworth Street, Bridgewater House (1912),
Whitworth Street - eclectic Renaissance meets Baroque, Ship
Canal House(1927) - Classical, Lee House (1931)
- International Modern meets Art Deco. Edwin Lutyens,
the Midland Bank (1929), King Street, now HSBC.
Outside the city centre Edgar
Wood and J.H. Sellars in the early
part of the C20 moved from Arts and Crafts, through a proto-Expressionism
to the International Modern in their buildings. Their work
can be best viewed in the suburb town of Middleton, or at the First Church of
Christ, Scientist (1903), Daisy Bank Road in Victoria
Park, now Executive Business Systems. Similarly original is
the eccentric but delightful Mediterranean based work of Richard
Harding Watt in Knutsford.
Vincent Harris,
the Central Library (1934) - Classical, the Town
Hall Extension (1938). J.W. Beaumont, Kendals
Department Store (1939), now offices, 7 Great Ancoats
Street. G.S.
Hay, Burnet, Tait and Partners, the Cooperative Movement's
complex on Miller Street including New Century House and
the soaring 25 storey CIS Tower (1962). L.C.
Howitt, Hollings Colllege, Wilmslow Road, Fallowfield
(1960), Crown Court (1962), Crown Square. Covell,
Matthews and Partners, The Piccadilly Buildings (1965). Casson,
Conder and Partners, National Westminster Bank (1969),
now offices and shops, King Street. Wilson and Womersely, the
Arndale Centre (1972-1980).
Recent architectural work of note
includes much by local design practices. Building Design
Partnership, Marks and Spencer Store, Market
Street/Cross Street. Stephenson Bell, 15
Quay Street, Eastgate refurbishment, Castlefield, G-Mex
Conference 
Centre. OMI, Martinscroft
Housing, Boundary Lane, Hulme, Fourth Church of Christ,
Scientist, Peter Street, dukes 92, Castle Street. Hodder
Associates, Centenary Building, Salford University, Marks
and Spencer bridge, Cross Street. Mills Beaumont
LeavyChannon, Siemens Building, Princess Parkway,
West Didsbury, Homes for Change, Chichester Road, Hulme, Manchester
Metropolitan University Library, Aytoun Street. Ian
Simpson Architects, masterplan for redevelopment
of the city centre, Merchants Warehouse refurbishment, Castle
Street, Castlefield, Manchester Museum and the Museum
of Science and Industry refurbishment and rebuild, Urbis,
Corporation Street, No. 1 Deansgate.
Recent non-local designers and work
includes Nicholas Thompson, RHWL, The Bridgewater
Hall. Michael Hopkins, Manchester Art
Gallery Extension. Santiago Calatrava, Trinity
Bridge, off St Mary's Parsonage.
Daniel Libeskind, Imperial War Museum North, The Quays, Trafford. Tadao Ando, Piccadilly Gardens Pavilion.
