The Granada Building is - to use that over-used word - iconic - for many reasons. It was the first modernist style building to be constructed in Manchester. It dates from the first half of the 1950s, when there were no other buildings like it around.
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The Granada logo, still on the roof, is another icon of Manchester, synonymous with local and national broadcasting for the last 50 years.
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Is the building important enough to retain and renovate, or should it be swept away like so many other symbols of Manchester's media past, such as Northcliffe House on Deansgate?