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Informationen zum Autor Alan Ward is an award-winning designer, photographer and artist who lives in Manchester Klappentext In 2008, Manchester decided to embark on a counter-cyclical project, much as the city fathers had done in the last great recession, and invest significantly in two civic buildings, two buildings that were cornerstones of the making of the first modern industrialised city: Manchester Town Hall Extension and Manchester Central Library.Early on in this major redevelopment project, artists Dan Dubowitz and Alan Ward were given privileged and open access to witness this transformational period in the life of these two iconic buildings. Through large-format photographs and interviews taken and conducted over a period of eighteen months, they captured the moment when the city's citizens and workers had been locked out and the spaces were being stripped bare; revealing both a glimpse of what they had been and what they might become.The artwork provides insights on the reciprocal relationship between people and place, and reveals how the refurbishment of a building can go far beyond physical refurbishment, questioning the relationships between a city, its citizens and place. Zusammenfassung An insight into the refurbishment of Manchester's Town Hall Extension and Central Library! through large-format photographs -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Special projects2. Wisdom is the principal thing3. I was born... in the crime section4. Worshipping at the altar of process5. Dangerous buildings6. Concilio et Labore7. Coleridge at 448. Crisis in heaven9. What would Vincent Harris do?10. Vincent Harris, Stanley Jast and Charles Nowell11. The Project12. Echoes 13. Main Contractor 14. Sub-contractors / One Team15. ApprenticesArtists' acknowledgements
