When it was completed in 1970, this grey concrete building was home to the University of Manchester's Architecture & Planning Department.  The severe concrete is softened by an internal courtyard. 

The University's website indicates that today the building is home to among others:  the Architecture and Planning Department, the Brookes World Poverty Institute, the Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research, the Cordingley Lecture Theatre (see below), ...

When the building was designed there were proposals to link many of the buildings on the campus by a high level walkway.  There is evidence of this in the image below.  You can see a concrete panel that covers the point where the walkway would have been connected to the building.