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The Toast Rack.

This is the first in a series of short films that will celebrate some of Manchesters finest contemporary and historic modernist architecture.

The Toast Rack, formerly known as the Domestic and Trades College and then the Hollings Building, is a brutalist icon which was constructed between 1958 and 1960. The college was designed by Manchester’s City Architect’s Department, then under the stewardship of Leonard Cecil Howitt