Ed Glinert, occasional RIBA judge and Manchester architecture expert, takes you on a remarkable whirlwind tour of the city's greatest buildings:

We will look at the difference between all those captivating styles:

Classical, Italianate, Gothic, Baroque, Modernist.

We will look at the Golden Ratio proportions of the Friends' Meeting House on Mount Street and Lutyens’s Midland Bank on King Street.

We will look at why Central Library resembles the Pantheon, not just in Rome but London.

And we will explain why so many Manchester buildings were designed to look existing buildings in Europe and America.