Emerging from World War II heavily bombed and with a deep economic crisis resulting from the closure of historic cotton mills, Manchester has managed to reinvent its profile and future, thanks especially to investments on the cultural and architectural front. In the post-war period, world-renowned architects worked here, redeveloping neglected areas, relocating old buildings, and unleashing strong creative energies, following the path of the great Norman Foster, who was actually born in Manchester.
Palaces in the austere classical style have thus been joined by the spectacular Trinity Bridge, designed by Santiago Calatrava; the Imperial War Museum by architect Daniel Libeskind; or the Piccadilly Gardens Papillon by the brilliant Tadao Ando.
