The Anonymous Widower

The Co-Op’s Fancy New Headquarters

One Angel Square is the Co-Operative Group’s new headquarters.

It may have won lots of awards as a green building, but it’s surrounded by a see of that very green symbol, surface level car parks.

I had had difficulty finding the building too, as it wasn’t on any maps in the city centre. To get to the building, you needed to cross a busy dual carriageway.

If it’s a really green building, then surely it should have its own tram stop, but that was a rather shabby walk away.

With the news from the Co-Op this morning of Lord Myner’s resignation, it strikes me that the Co-op these  days is a vanity institution and a gravy train and ego trip for some of those who control it.

April 9, 2014 - Posted by AnonW | World | Architecture, Co-Operative Group, Manchester