TALLEST TOWERS MANCHESTER BUILDING BOOM | Planned, in Progress or Abandoned

In this update of AidanEyewitness we look at a mixture of tall buildings - planned, in progress, abandoned as well as a couple of fascinating older buildings. Manchester is constantly changing, with countless tall buildings under construction in all parts of the central area. It's unprecedented!
0:00 Introduction from AidanEyewitness by Piccadilly Station
0:28 Piccadilly Tower aka Eastgate Tower aka inacity Tower
1:30 One Port Street
2:38 "The Monster" on Upper Brook Street
3:52 Lee House - It could have been one Europe's tallest towers
5:10 Memorial Tower extension to Sunlight House
6:20 The Lighthouse, Crown Street District - was to have been the tallest
7:24 Vista River Gardens, Trinity Island
8:35 Early proposlas for Regent Road retail park, Salford
Here's one of my primary sources of information, Johnny the Shoe Shine Man, from US comedy show 'Police Squad'
• Police Squad Johnny - ...
I also gathered information from these sources:
2- www.placenorthwest.co.uk/thir...
www.skyscrapercity.com/thread...
3- www.manchestereveningnews.co....
www.skyscrapercity.com/thread...
4 - www.business-live.co.uk/comme...
5- Guide Across Manchester
Lee house is later (1931) (architect, Harry S,Fairhurst and son) and quite different. It’s soaring lines are more reminiscent of contemporary American skyscrapers than other office buildings of this date in the city, and looks well on the way to the modern all glass and steel curtain wall. The layered, brick shafts and corner sections, give the building, a massive strength and its continuous vertical, slightly canted bay windows, framed in bronze, animate the wall surface with a subtle rippling effect. The roofline is so abrupt because the original design of 1928, was for 17 storeys, which would have made it, at 217 feet, one of the tallest office buildings in Europe. In the event, it was built up only to the height of the Tootal building next door with an extra weight of steel put into the building frame to allow the addition of further storeys if required.
PLANS FOR A MANCHESTER SKYSCRAPER, an extension to Sunlight House, Quay Street, are to be presented to the Draft Schemes Sub-Committee. It will be twice the height of the present building, and will be built between Sunlight House and the Opera House. It will be surmounted with a large clock tower. The £1m, 35-storey, 360ft building has been designed by Mr Joseph Sunlight" From my own Eyewitness review of Manchester in 1948
7 - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity...
www.placenorthwest.co.uk/alli...
8 - www.business-live.co.uk/comme...
www.manchestereveningnews.co....
confidentials.com/manchester/...
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On the AidanEyewitness channel, I produce snapshots of the ongoing development of Manchester, Liverpool and connected cities, focusing especially on new construction, renovation and adaptation of heritage buildings, modern architecture in general, public transport infrastructure, future construction plans as well as questions of urban identity and the uniqueness of cities. I like to document the construction of buildings, taking images at regular intervals and mergin them into timelapse sequences.
I’ve been interested in architecture and city development since I was a child. I was doing projects on Manchester architecture in primary school. From 1997 to 2005 I produced my website Eyewitness in Manchester which documented the reconstructin of the city after the IRA bomb in photos and words. I’ve contributed photos and writing to books, magazines and newspapers. AidanEyewitness is the latest chapter, I dream of a big audience and lots of success, but there is still a long way to go! Please help me by liking, subscribing, sharing, commenting and providing some financial support, so I can fulfil my dream of producing AidanEyewitness full time.