Manchester Craft and Design Centre

The Victorian Gothic façade of the Manchester Craft and Design Centre is defined by its two rows of arched windows, which once illuminated the fish market stalls housed inside. Built in eighteen seventy-three, the building served as a bustling trade hub for local vendors. During the nineteen eighties, the structure was repurposed to provide studio spaces for independent makers. Today, those same iron-framed stalls act as workshops where jewelers and ceramicists create their goods in plain view of anyone passing through the atrium.