Gateway House....

After yesterday's wrapped building, here's a semi wrapped one. It's Gateway House on the approach to Piccadilly Station in Manchester. It's one of the first things you see as you arrive in the city and, of late, it's not been a great impression. Built in the 1960s, it is looking it's age and has deteriorated badly over the last few years.

I did hear that it was going to be torn down to make way for the HS2 rail terminal when it arrives in town at some indeterminate point in the future. But goodness knows when that will happen. People with large gardens in the Chilterns and the trendy residents of Camden and Primrose Hill in London aren't keen on the plan at all. Up here in Manchester and Leeds people are more positive about it. To get the route into the centre of Manchester, they are planning a tunnel under the city from the airport to the city centre. Exciting stuff.

In the meanwhile this building is being converted into a hotel. I'm coming round to 1960s architecture (if it's looked after) and have always enjoyed the sinuous curve of this building. It would be a shame to lose it.