The eclectic Marcus Barlow's early career was characterized

return to front page 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.

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