Midland Bank building, King Street, Manchester

100 King Street (formerly Midland bank building) is a building on King Street, Manchester which was designed by Edwin Lutyens in 1928. Built 1933-5.The building is a grade II* listed building A castle-like Art Deco building, surrounded moat-like by roads on all four sides, is the work of Sir Edwin Lutyens. Built with the help of engineers Whinney, Son & Austen Hall between 1933 and 1935, it features carvings by the local sculptor John Ashton Floyd. The building is constructed of Portland stone around a steel frame. "The proportions are ingeniously calculated, as Lutyens..adored to do. The top stage is two-thirds of the stage from the obelisks to the next set-back, and that middle stage is two-thirds of the bottom stage." The major work...