Urbis

It was my 21st this week, hurrah! Me and my boyfriend took a couple of days out to go to Manchester, not the most exotic of locations I know, but neither of us have ever really explored the city. So that's why a few of my posts this week may relate to Manchester. While we were there we tried to get to as many of the galleries as we could, although there weren't actually that many exhibitions on and we noticed a distinct lack of photography for Ian.

Amongst our failed attempts was our trip to Urbis exhibition centre, which we'd heard a lot about as far as galleries in Manchester go. Unfortunately when we got there it was closed... and we were dismayed to see it's now becoming the National Football Museum. Gutted. However, it was a gorgeous day so we had a chill on the grass next to it, and I admired the Urbis building. None of my photographs did it any kind of justice, so the one above is pinched online from elliotmcintyre.com. In the daytime the tinted pale blue glass panels become a gorgeous pale blue colour, and because it was such a clear sunny day I think the building really looked its best.