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Huge Christo in central Manchester

Looking for somewhere in Manchester I stumbled upon what looks like a massive Christo and Jeanne-Claude in central Manchester.

It's not, obvs, but it still looks incredibly dramatic. It's just scaffolding and renovations and the Manchester Evening News covered it a year ago. As you'd expect, our good friends at Scaff Mag have the juicy details; a bespoke and highly technical 90m high clock tower scaffold, 450m of staircases (enough to reach the summit of the Empire State Building) and "10,000m2 of the most complex temporary weather protection roofs the industry has ever seen".

Stunning.

 

A work post

Remember when Russell used to do that ☝️ all the time?

 

A bit of work for a change. Here's a link to the Public Digital newsletter, we do one every month but this is a special edition on the Post Office scandal. It's a round up of the best articles and commentary on this issue with some extra insights from PD people that have worked on large public sector IT projects. 

Public Digital newsletter: Post Office Special Edition 

 

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Very good sign for the London black cab building

I must have cycled past this building hundreds of times and yet only today in the year of 2024 did I notice this magnificent (yet obvious) sign. 

We must take this as a good omen.

Although it was dark when this photo was taken the building is black in the daylight too. The office houses the Licensed Taxi Drivers' Association.

For my listeners not familiar with London taxis here is a photo of one with the distinctive yellow sign on the roof, it lights up when the cab is available. This one was designed by Kenneth Grange, more on him in this old blog post Kenneth Grange - Making Britain Modern.