Daily+Express+Building

The Daily Express Building ought to be mentioned here because of the design way ahead of its time. It was completed in 1939 and is extremely avant garde. Just 35 years after its opening, it was listed as a Grade II* building, meaning: “Particularly important buildings of more than special interest”. It was built to house the tabloid magazine Daily Express - one of the first of its kind. Two other quite similar houses were built in respectively London and Glascow - also for the purpose of housing Daily Express. However, the building in Manchester is considered by architects the best of the three. Is is particularly the rounded corners, the black colour and the large glass facade which makes it look more recent. The Daily Express Building is places on Great Ancoats Street.

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