Guess how old it is

[Rik]

I'm gonna go for the furthest away prize and say that it's the 1920s.

[ckh]

Since no one said 1940, I'll say just around 1940...

[Cloud]

Some of you are spot one

The answer is ...................1936, though it was completed in 1939!

I have shown the same pics to some others and they all said any time between 1970 to 2013, and as shown in this thread we have dates from the 1920s to current date - it really is a timeless building.

It is the old daily express building in manchester, UK. The correct term for the style is Streamline Moderne, but others call it Futurist Art Deco. One of the first buildings to use glass curtain walling, there are two other's like it, it's london sister was opened in 1931 and one in glasgow in 1937, although the manchester building is by far the best example.

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Just goes to show how forward thinking people were back in the 1930s, we need the same foresight now, especially in the UK because we seem to long so much for the tudor, georgian or victorian era buildings that we forget about such marvels of design as this building and design our homes as if they all have to look like we built then 200 years ago.

I really like buildings in america, from the weird and wonderful homes to the great buildings such as the chrysler building or empire state or frank lloyd wright's waterfall house, but unfortunately we are ruled by our small minded planning officers.

We have some great open minded, intelligent thinkers on this forum; ask a person on the street and they would say it was brand new, with no knowledge of the great designs of the 1920s and 1930s.

[gwpriester]

I was almost going to revise my guess forward because of the mirrored glass. But I didn't.