Bang to rights: Denton Corker Marshall’s Manchester Civil Justice Centre

Judges’ offices on the west elevation are veiled by a perforated screen in grey-painted metal.

Source: Tim Griffith

Manchester’s new Civil Justice Centre has all the makings of an icon, but is its studied informality at odds with its serious purpose.

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