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MX.09 Competition design for Manchester Library and Art Gallery

Address: Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester
Date: 1911
Client: Manchester City Council
Authorship:

(Office)

This design was submitted in the major architectural competition for a combined municipal library and art gallery on the site of Manchester's former Infirmary. It was short-listed, but did not win. The winning design did not go ahead, and the project was abandoned.

Authorship: The design was produced by Andrew Graham Henderson, who was an assistant in Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh's office at the time, and John R. Hacking, who had worked there between 1905 and 1908. There is no evidence that Mackintosh was involved.

Status: Unbuilt

'Mackintosh Architecture' led by The Hunterian, University of Glasgow, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council; with additional support from The Monument Trust, The Pilgrim Trust, and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art; and collaborative input from Historic Scotland and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland.