Corn Exchange Manchester
Edwardian Baroque grain exchange on a triangular plot, crowned by a glazed atrium dome.
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This guide to the Corn Exchange in Manchester looks up, at the glass-and-steel roof over the atrium, and asks what it took to make it. It follows the grain merchants who needed daylight to work, the builders handed an awkward lopsided plot in the early nineteen hundreds, and the restorers who came after an IRA bomb in nineteen ninety-six. Best heard standing on the atrium floor, directly beneath the central dome.
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