Dale Street, Manchester: Before

During my years as Creative Director for the UK’s Urbis Centre for Urban Culture, I had many great opportunities to change the city in big, small, temporary and permanent ways. Of them all, Urban Oasis remains one of my favourite projects.

Dale Street, Machester: After

Working with the Office for Subversive Architecture (Berlin/London), Urban Oasis was a quick hit piece of urban revitilisation. Working with an abandoned lot in central Manchester and little more than a few rolls of grass turf, lumber, paint and some repurposed materials, the lot was transformed in one day into a temporary Urban Oasis. Why the bar? Well, it is Manchester after all…