Manchester prepares for fall of its 'Berlin Wall'

Tadao Ando's modernist work in Piccadilly Gardens has divided opinion since 2002

To some it is a modernist masterpiece for which any other city in the world would give their right arm". To others, it is a concrete carbuncle that should never have been installed on what was once Manchester's lushest square.

Work was set to begin on Monday to demolish the Japanese architect Tadao Ando's only UK work after sceptics won the battle over what has been called the Mancunian Berlin Wall.