• Aviva Studios, Manchester review – where’s the joy?

    Aviva Studios, Manchester review – where’s the joy?
    Designed by celebrated practice OMA to morph from small-scale to vast and host the city’s international festival, Manchester’s new £211m Aviva Studios, formerly Factory International, feels like a missed opportunityThe best solution to an architectural problem, argued the great architectural thinker Cedric Price (1934-2003), may not necessarily be a building. I mention Price because his spirit lurks somewhere behind the complex formerly known as Factory International, recently

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