Friday, February 29, 2008

City 17 -Life imitates Art


When I was in Manchester the other day I was struck by the resemblance between it and Half-lif2's City 17, largely as a result of the Beetham Tower. The top images is Manchester, the lower image is City 17


Manchester
(credit: Brian Micklethwait from http://www.brianmicklethwait.com/index.php/weblog/a_new_tower_in_manchester/)


City 17
(credit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HalfLife2_City17_TrainStationSquare.jpg)


Comments:

Jaggy said...

That's possibly the most hideous tower I've ever seen. I couldn't believe it when I saw that it had been built in only the last couple of years. It looks more like a 1960's block of flats on Glasgow's Red Road.

Jaggy

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