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Murrays Mills Manchester
- building by BDP Architects
Murrays Mills Ancoats Village, Manchester
Project description

This large project for both the renovation of Historic cotton Mills and
new constructions is in the rapidly regenerating Ancoats area of the centre
of Manchester.
Ancoats Buildings Preservation Trust is the client for the shell-repair
and conservation works began on site in September 2004.

Our client, the Burrell Company/Inpartnership Ltd, has commissioned us
to design proposals for the development of these important buildings.

Our project shows the two main Mills being converted into apartments with
a textile resource centre in the historic building between the two and
a proposed small hotel as a new build completing a quadrangle.

The architectural vision for the re-inhabitation of Murrays Mills
is to create an enclosed central space, and to make new architecture which
clearly differentiates between the restored historic buildings and new
insertions. Externally, the new elements consist of corten-steel staircase/lift
towers to the Old Mill and the Old Mill Engine House (echoing the form
of the existing staircase); new external staircases to the first floor
flats in the New Mill; and a glazed lift to one side of the Old Mills
existing brick staircase.

Planning & Listed Building Consent for the conversion of the two mill
buildings and their engine houses was granted in January 2006 and we are
now programming the first stages of the conversion work to begin on site
late 2008.
Construction cost: £16 million
Client: Inpartnership & The Burrell Company

Murrays Mills Manchester - info from Richard Murphy Architects 2007
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