Beetham Tower
Slender glass skyscraper with a hotel, sky bar and rooftop fin that hums in strong winds.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Beetham Tower on Deansgate in Manchester is about weather and a building that answers it. It follows the decorative glass fin at the top of the tower, the storms that have tested it since two thousand and six, and the engineers who kept trying to quiet it. Along the way you meet the architect Ian Simpson and the unlikely garden hidden among the clouds. Best heard on the pavement looking straight up, ideally on a windy day.
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