An Architectural View of the Manchester Courthouse

There have been several articles in various blogs and traditional print about the changes going on in Manchester and the courthouse. An article in today’s Style Weekly by Edwin Slipek Jr. takes a look at the “architectural transformation” of the courthouse in Manchester.

In a bold gesture, the project’s planners and architect, Moseley Architects of Richmond, gave the expanded courts complex an entirely new public front on a bluff at Ninth Street. The entrance is now announced with a classical portico that offers dramatic views of the sprawling Manchester warehouse district and the downtown skyline in the distance. While previously it wasn’t clear how to enter the building, that isn’t an issue now. And if architecture has the power to set a civic standard and guide the conversation as to how we experience a building, this expanded courts complex is exhibit A.