Manchester is located in the northwest of great britain was made a city in 1853. A big city, it boasts a population of over 450,000, which makes it the fourteenth most populated city in Europe.
The city boasts 2 major railway station, manchester piccadilly and manchester victoria. it is also served by national & local coach and bus services, many of these services leave from the city’s chorlton street coach station.
Manchester initially came to prominence during the Industrial Revolution, which is when the city became the world leader in textile manufacture and production. the city is really proud of its industrial history & a number of the cotton mills that were used during this time have been converted into flats and offices.
The city is also renowned for its commerce, science and technology. It boasts three universities & is well known as the birthplace of the Baby computer, which revolutionised modern computing.
Although the city still has many sensational Victorian buildings including the town hall & Central Library, it also has many complicated buildings. a number of these architecture were constructed after the city was bombed by terrorists in1996.
There’s loads of things to do in Manchester, including plenty of museums and art galleries. occasionally of the finest are URBIS, the police museum and the Whitworth Art Gallery.
The Whitworth art gallery boasts a friendly permanent collection of artwork, containing art by artists including Picasso, Paul Klee and David Hockney. as well as this, the gallery also boasts various touring exhibitions.
Manchester is a fantastic place for shopping lovers with a wide range of outlets that suit every taste. you will find designer stores like agent provocateur & armani on the city’s elite King Street, in addition to larger department stores including harvey nicks.
Budget shoppers will be happy to know that there’s plenty of high-street outlets on Market street. some of the most popular outlets are new look, hmv & Game.
Manchester is well known for its history, so it is only right that you try it. Whether you like sipping on a glass of rose wine or going to a gig, we are most likely that you will find some great stuff to do in this lively city.
Manchester is synonymous with music & a number of well known bands come from the city, including the courteeners, Badly Drawn Boy & morrissey. if you want to catch the next big thing, you will find countless live music venues in the city.
For a more exclusive evening out, you could visit one of the city’s exclusive bars instead. Here you will be able to socialise with an refined crowd & have some high-quality cocktails.
Thank you for reading our tourist guide to manchester. For more documentation, go and see your locality tourist documentation centre, who’ll be pleased to assist you.
By: Graciela Saltise
Archive for January, 2010
Look Up the Men Arena, a Modern Theatre in Manchester
January 30th, 2010Architectural Landscape Elements
January 29th, 2010Modern beautification of urban environment uses more and more often along with greenery planting installation of architectural landscape elements in the city area. What are they? The notion “architectural landscape elements” appeared long time ago. It implies constructions, equipment and decorative elements of outside beautification that supplement the main building-up of populated areas. Architectural landscape elements include stalls, vending machines, outside lanterns (otherwise called “landscape lanterns”), advertising stands, stairs, fences, garden and park constructions, fountains, obelisks, memorial plates, urban street furniture, litter bins, etc. The notion is old, but if in the past beautification of micro districts ended with asphalting, paving and installation of several litter bins, nowadays the mayors (for instance, Krasnoyarsk mayor) pay great attention to aesthetic modification of cities. All this results in the fact that beautification of urban environment uses architectural landscape elements.
In most cases architectural elements bear not only functional meaning, but lately also decorative meaning. Thus, installation of architectural landscape elements in squares and parks lets separate the area on various zones with various purpose or emphasize necessary places. Not long ago there appeared a tendency of unified decoration of micro districts in the cities. The style of architectural landscape elements also should (in the theory) suit urban areas design and match harmoniously with the building-up concept.
Landscape elements can be either assembled of prepared details on site or delivered to the installation site bodily.
There are a lot of requirements put forward to finished architectural landscape elements. They are standard (such as economy, aesthetics, safety, functionality, technological properties) and non-standard (the main one is universality). Customers (as a rule they are city governments) mostly want a standard set of architectural landscape elements to be assembled into a non-standard, more functional urban furniture combinations. Use of such combinations leads to uniqueness of the decorated areas, they become more comfortable for rest and, consequently, more popular with people. This, finally, brings positive impressions on city government.
Unfortunately, there are very few companies working on creation of architectural landscape elements and unification of urban furniture components. They prefer just making cheaper street furniture and, thus, work up the market. Moreover, according to modern law the regional governments must choose the cheapest offer while declaring tenders on architectural landscape elements purchasing. But low price not at all means high quality and, which is more important, aesthetic correspondence of architectural elements with the already established image of urban building-up. That is why in these conditions the main responsibility lies on architects and designers who work out this or that project of building-up or urban environment beautification.
By: Alexey Skorobogatov
