| The
eclectic Marcus Barlow's early career was characterized by his
promotion of the the bungalow as a house type. In the decade
after 1914 his various practices were responsible for the design
of many such houses. From the late 1920's his practice was dominated
by city centre commercial commissions in a variety of styles
from the historicist 'commercial palazzo' style of Temple Court
[1923-4] through various versions of 'streamlined deco on the
Presgrave Building (1938) and the Hardy Brothers Building (1933),
'commercial gothic' on the Machester Unity Building [1929-32]
and the Century Building [1938-40] to the streamlined modernism
of the MU Oddfellows Building [later Jensen House] from 1944. |
