MMU HOLLINGS CAMPUS | WILMSLOW ROAD MANCHESTER UK

Very much deserving of its iconic status, MMU's Hollings Campus has been well documented - a blog dedicated to it by Manchester Modernist is essential reading. 

With the announcement this week of "space age plans" for it's redevelopment, I went to have a look around before the bulldozers roll in. 

Photos from the site circular below...

HULME HALL | UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER CAMPUS | 1968 ADDITIONS

Walked past here after checking out the Toast Rack and looking for shut down pubs in Rusholme. Hulme Hall is a part of Manchester University & shares a name (& search engine confusion) with a now extinct manor house in Hulme. Originally the site in Victoria Park was home to Houldsworth Hall which was Grade II listed in 1974. It says here it was built in 1907 but looks a lot older.

The buildings featured below, designed by Bernard Taylor & Partners, were added to the site in 1968. More red brick than concrete, it's maybe not as iconic as other constructions from around that time but is still worth checking out.

Also added to the site in 1968 and to link to a previous post, designed by the same firm that did the Renaissance Hotel on Deansgate, is the Hulme Hall Chapel. 

From Mainstream Modern: 

"The halls of residence assumed the form of courtyards and cloisters which engender a certain collegiate atmosphere, but also restrict the permeability of the site and although the blank, monolithic walls of the chapel do peep over the boundary wall of the plot, it retains an air of secrecy...."