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Oxford Road, MANCHESTER, M13 9RD

The University Precinct is straight ahead, the Royal Northern College of Music on the right and part of Manchester Business School on the left.

Royal Northern College of Music, on Oxford Road: https://www.rncm.ac.uk/about/rncm-story-and-mission/

The Booth Street front (left) is concrete and by Bickerdike, Allen, Rich & Partners, 1968-73. The Oxford Road front is softer, and probably dates from the late 1990s or early 2000s. A walkway used to run across Booth Street to the Precinct Centre (Image]). The college offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses, and has been around in one form or another since 1893.

The corner of Oxford Road and Booth Street West.

The new extension to the Chatham Building, which houses the Faculty of Art and Design and the School of Architecture at the Manchester Metropolitan University, was designed by Fielden Clegg Bradley Studios http://www.fcbstudios.com/projects.asp?s=6&ss=2&proj=1497# and was completed in April 2013. The work involved demolishing part of the original 1960s Chatham Building whilst retaining the tower. Compare this 21st century building with the original School of Art, the Grosvenor Building, which was built in 1880 and is just around the corner (Image]).

The iconic, 46-year-old precinct centre bridge over Oxford Road (see Image] ) has been taken down and the end of the precinct is being demolished prior to being reconfigured to create up to 14 units with glazed frontages onto Oxford Road. The link bridge was removed to improve views and increase light levels. The work is taking place as part of Manchester University’s £50m redevelopment of Manchester Business School. https://www.placenorthwest.co.uk/news/oxford-road-bridge-demolition-begins-next-week/#sthash.tdtcUzN6.dpuf

Massive development which stretches across Oxford Road into Booth Street East. By Wilson & Womersley, 1970-72, for the University of Manchester. It was designed with elevated walkways over the main roads - that over Booth Street West which connected to the Royal Northern College of Music (just left of shot) has gone, but was there when I was a student in 1985-88, leaving that over Oxford Road as the only relic of that particular scheme (Image]). The Business School, part of the University, occupies the near part of the building seen here, while the next two sections with the semi-circular glazed staircase is now occupied by some sort of university innovation centre (the Harold Hankins Building). In its previous incarnation as a hall of residence, Cornbrook House, I called it home for two of my student years. We didn't need centres to go to innovate in my day, we had pubs. I have to confess it looks unnaturally orange in this photo. I haven't doctored it so I will blame the low summer sun.