the modernist society - project archive

MANCHESTER MAP (2014)

MANCHESTER MAP (2014)

TOASTRACK (2013)

The Toastrack, also known as the Domestic & Trades College, or the Hollings Faculty of Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU), now stands emp...

METRO MODERN MAP (2013)

Metro Modern, the Manchester Modernist Society’s free map & guide to Manchester’s Twentieth Century Architecture. With the help of our handy gu...

CAMPUS (2012)

Modernist pranksters confer guerilla conservation status on endangered sixties campus. Founders of the Manchester Modernist Society, Jack Hale &am...

CAMPUS (2012) DESIGN WORK

"Working with The Manchester Modernist Society on their CAMPUS project where they intended to unofficially declare the UMIST Campus a conservation ...

'T U P' (2012)

A discrete intervention in concrete. Premiering the new track ‘Good Morning, Midnight’ The mms is delighted to have collaborated with Manchester b...

NO RUBBISH TIPPED HERE (2012)

If there’s an empty space people will play in it! The Secret Gardens Festival celebrates the rich creative talent in Salford and Trafford with a ra...

M3 - CHAPEL STREET (2011)

A meander as part of Sites of the Other City, a weekend of creative activity and events around Salford's Chapel Street, in May 2011. Exploring some...

THE MODERNIST SHOP (2011)

In November 2011, at 142 Chapel Street in Salford, we opened a temporary shop. We invited artists and designers to submit work with an architectura...

MODERNIST HEROINES (2011)

A project created through a collaboration between Manchester Modernist Society, The Loiterer’s Resistance Movement, and The Shreiking Violet, Tha...

ALPHABET CITY (2011)

A project inspired by the bold lines and beautiful shapes of Manchester as a modernist city and our very own a-z, this pocket gazetteer with its pa...

THE MANCHESTER KIOSKS (2010)

‘Conversations We Wish We’d Had’ a sound commission by Ailís Ní Ríain As recognisable as the double-decker bus, as traditional as fish and chips, ...

LET'S ALL MEET AT THE ODEON (2010)

On 4 May, long after the sun had set, a crowd of 100 people gathered outside the Odeon on Oxford Street. The former cinema, boarded up and unlove...