Key Developments - alphabetical:

Abito, Greengate, Salford
2005-07
BDP

photo David Barbour/BDP
Manchester building

Adelphi Street : mixed-use tower, Salford
2007
SMC Alsop with SMC DTR:UK
27 storeys
Developer: Vermont Developments
Planning permission: granted
4 floors of office/retail; 22 residential floors above

Alan Turning Building, Upper Brook St, south Manchester
2007
Sheppard Robson
For University of Manchester
£45m

Albany Tower, Piccadilly, central Manchester
2007-
Ian Simpson Architects
43-54 storeys, tbc.
Developer: Albany Crown

Albert’s Shed, Castlefield
2005
Stephenson Bell
For Castlefield Estates / Elle R Leisure

Ancoats Hospital development, New Islington Master Plan
2007-
Ian Simpson Architects
Developer: Urban Splash
Former Ancoats Hospital building refurbishment + 2 new buildings
178 apartments

Arndale Shopping Centre
1972-75; 1975-79; redeveloped 2005 - Exchange Court
-

building photo © adrian welch
victim of IRA bomb : reputedly Europe's largest shopping centre

Ashcroft Surgery, Stockport
1998
Stephen Hodder Architects

Axis - tower, Albion Street
2007-08
HKR Architects

Manchester building

B of the Bang
2005
Thomas Heatherwick - Artist
56m high

Beetham Tower
2007
Ian Simpson Architects

building - photo © adrian welch
tallest building in the UK outside London - 172m
Beetham Tower

Bridgewater Hall
1996
Renton Howard Wood Levin Architects - RHWL
Bridgewater Hall Manchester

Bridge over Leeds – Liverpool Canal
2007-
Softroom
RIBA Architecture competition winners 2007

Burton Building, Oldham St
1999
Stephen Hodder Architects

Canopus Greengate- two towers
Arca Architects
£50m mixed-use Salford development

Cardroom Estate Regeneration, east Manchester
2007
De Metz Forbes Knight
Housing for Urban Splash

Career Services Unit
1998
Stephen Hodder Architects

Castlefield Junction - Competition
2001
Stephen Hodder Architects

Centenary Building, University of Salford, nr. Manchester
1996
Stephen Hodder Architects

Centre of Business Management - Redevelopment, University of Salford
1992
Stephen Hodder Architects
Limited architecture competition winner

Century Buildings
-
Assael Architects

Chancery Place, Booth Street
2007-08
HKR Architects

Manchester building

2 - 4 Chester Road, Castlefield Basin apartments, central Manchester
-
Ian Simpson Architects

Chester Road development
2007-
Aedas
Office block + 14-storey apartment block

Chetham’s School of Music – proposed new building, north Manchester
2007-
Stephenson Bell Architects

Chips, New Islington
2006-08
Alsop Architects

CIS Tower, Miller St, north central Manchester
1962
Sir John Burnett Tait & Partners with GS Hay

building photo © adrian welch
CIS Tower Manchester

City Art Gallery Manchester
1995
Stephen Hodder Architects

City Road Surgery
1996
Stephen Hodder Architects

Corn Exchange - Triangle shopping centre

building photo © adrian welch
Triangle Manchester

Cornerhouse Arts Centre: refurbishment, south central Manchester
David Chipperfield Architects
This building was originally redeveloped to form an arthouse cinema by Ian
Simpson, one of his first buildings

Corporation Street Footbridge - Twisting Bridge, central Manchester
1998/2000
Stephen Hodder Architects - Hodder Associates

Daily Express Building (former), central-east Manchester
-
Owen Williams, Architect

Dandara Regional Office, Lowry Hotel, Salford
2006
Stephen Hodder Architects
competition winner
three levels of office accommodation within existing Lowry Hotel

Ducie Street Tower – proposal
2007-11
Woods Bagot
60 storeys
Developer: Inacity

Dukes 92, Castlefield
1991
Stephenson Bell
conversion

Eastgate House, Castlefield
1992(?)
Stephenson Bell

Fountain St offices – proposed tower
2007-
Stephenson Bell
16 storeys

Free Trade Hall, Manchester - project
1999
Stephen Hodder Architects

G-Mex Centre
1876; 1982-86; 2001
Manchester International Convention Centre

Great Northern Tower
-
Assael Architects

The Green Building
early 2006
Farrells - prev. Terry Farrell & Partners
19 New Wakefield St, Macintosh Village, south central Manchester
for Taylor Woodrow developments

The Hacienda, Whitworth Street
1982
Ben Kelly Architects
now closed, as Fac 51 once home to Factory Records' famous club
The Hacienda
The Haçienda – apartments
-
Stephenson Bell

3 Hardman Street
2008-
Sheppard Robson
Reported as the largest office development outside London

Harvey Nichols Manchester
-
Lifschutz Davidson Architects

Heaton Hall & Park Regeneration
1995
Stephen Hodder Architects

Holt Town Watefront housing, east Manchester
2007-
Architects incl. Studio Egret West and Edaw
Developer: Cibitas Investments
£1.2bn approx. Cost
38 hectares

Hulme Bridge, south central Manchester
Wilkinson Eyre Architects

Imperial War Museum North
1996-2002
Daniel Libeskind Architects

Salford Museum building - photo © adrian welch
Imperial War Museum Manchester

John Rylands Library
Deansgate

building photo © adrian welch
John Rylands Library

King Street
2000
Stephen Hodder Architects

King Street
1845
CR Cockerell Architect

L'Homme - Men's shop, central Manchester
1986
Stephen Hodder Architects with Andree Putman and Ecart International of Paris

Light House apartments, Church Street
2007
Conran Group
169 apartments: 108 in new-build 20 storey Light House + 61 in original Pall Mall House
Developer: Stonehurst Estates
£32m

Lowry Centre, Salford

Lowry Centre - photo © adrian welch
Lowry Centre Salford
James Stirling Michael Wilford and Associates Ltd completed as Michael Wilford and Partners Ltd then Bain + Bevington Architects Ltd

The Manchester, Spinningfields
2007-
make
5 star hotel + luxury residential

Manchester City Art Gallery - redevelopment
1994-2002
Michael Hopkins & Partners

Manchester Cathedral
north of city centre

building photo © adrian welch
Millennium Quarter: new park integrating Manchester Cathedral, urbis and The Triangle

Manchester Central Library, St Peter's Square
-
E. Vincent Harris

Manchester Civil Justice Centre
2007
Denton Corker Marshall

Manchester Law Courts

Manchester College of Arts & Technology
-
Walker Simpson

Manchester Evening News Arena
1995
DLA Architecture

Manchester gallery project
-
David Adjaye with Maurice Shapero + Stephenson Bell
£55m
Apartments, gallery, retail, market, bus station

Manchester housing
-
Union North

Manchester towers - Three residential towers for Urban Splash

Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre Building, Princess Street
2006
Anshen & Allen, Architects

Manchester International Convention Centre
2002
Stephenson Bell with Sheppard Robson
£23m

Manchester Piccadilly Station Refurbishment
Building Design Partnership

Manchester Piccadilly Station

Manchester Royal Institution – now City Art Gallery
1823
Charles Barry

Manchester Town Hall, Albert Square
1877
Alfred Waterhouse; extension by E. Vincent Harris
Classic Victorian civic building, possibly the best in England, rivalling Bradford and north of the border, Glasgow

Manchester Transport Interchange
2006
Ian Simpson Architects up to Stage C; Jefferson Sheard Architects

Manchester Transport building image from Jefferson Sheard Architects
Manchester Transport Interchange

Manchester United Stadium - Quadrant Development
Miller Partnership, Architects

Manchester United Stadium building image from Miller Partnership
Manchester United Stadium

Marks & Spencer Manchester
BDP Architects
Exchange Square
on completion largest M&S store in the world

mediacity:uk, Salford Quays
-
Benoy / Wilkinson Eyre

Manchester development

Mercedes Benz
2002
Stephen Hodder Architects

Merchants’ Warehouse - renewal, Castlefield
1998
Ian Simpson Architects

Michael Smith Building - Manchester University Biosciences
2007
Sheppard Robson

Midland Bank building (HSBC Bank)
King Street
Edwin Lutyens Architect

Moho Manchester
2005/06
shedkm architects

building photo © Matt Ansell

Monastery of St Francis, Gorton, south Manchester
1872
Edward Welby Pugin & Peter Paul Pugin
Grade II* listed
£6m Restoration 2007 by Austin-Smith:Lord

Murray’s Mills, Ancoats, central-east Manchester
2007-
Richard Murphy Architects

Manchester Mill Redevelopment
Residential + commercial development for The Burrell Company & Inpartnership
Oldest surviving steam-powered cotton mill in the world
130 apartments; 60-bed hotel; commercial space; live/work units

No.1 Deansgate
2002
Ian Simpson Architects

building photo © adrian welch
62m high Manchester tower, high quality urban apartments
Deansgate apartments

New Islington, Ancoats
2006
Will Alsop Architects

building image © Matt Ansell
New Islington Manchester
Woodward Place - New Islington
2006
FAT Architects (Fashion Architecture Taste)

New Islington Bridge
Architecture Competition overseen by RIBA: 87 entries
Shortlisted: Glowacka Rennie Architects, Gunning Groothuizen Architects, Ian McChesney, Gollifer Langston Architects - winner tba after 23 Mar 2007

Nick Everton House, Upper Brook Street Building, south Manchester
2007
Makin Architecture

Manchester building

North Manchester Sixth-Form College (MANCAT)
2006
Walker Simpson Architects

Northern Gateway - Co-operative Group Masterplan Competition
2008-
Winner: Arup-led consortium; Finalists incl. BDP, Heneghan Peng & KPF

Oldham Library and Lifelong Learning Centre, Greater Manchester
-
Pringle Richards Sharratt
Client: Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council, £12m
PM's Award Finalist 2007

Ossington Court, south Manchester
-
Ian Simpson Architects
Redevelopment of existing 1960’s residential tower/slab block

Oswald Road Medical Practice
1993
Stephen Hodder Architects
RIBA Award 1994

Owen Street development
2008-
Ian Simpson Architects

Planning approval Jan 2008
Manchester building

Parsonage Chambers, Office Refurbishment
2000
Stephen Hodder Architects

Piccadilly Central Tower
2007-
Woods Bagot
60 storeys, 188m high
Approved design – mixed-use tower + blocks: apartments; hotel; retail; restaurants & bars
Approx. £200m
Due to be tallest residential building in UK
Developer: Ballymore/Merepark

Piccadilly Gardens Redevelopment
-
Tadao Ando Architect

2 Piccadilly Place building
2006

building photo © adrian welch
Weedon Partnership

4 Piccadilly Place
Stephen Hodder Architects with Austin Smith Lord and Glenn Howells Architects
Piccadilly Place building

Plymouth Grove - housing
2007
Makin Architecture
£32m
mixed-use development
Developer: Peakmount Properties
116 apartments + 360 student flats
13 storeys

Princess Street
2000-06
Stephen Hodder Architects
Seven storey building, 78,000 sqft offices, for developers CTP

Proposed Tower, Salford
2007-
HKR Architects
£11.5m
Salford tower

Proposed Tower, Whitworth St
2007-
HKR Architects
£15m

Quay Bar, Castlefield
1998
Stephenson Bell

St George's Island, Castlefield
-
Residential slab blocks - 434 units for Dandara

St Peter’s Square, Stockport, south Manchester
2007-09
HKR Architects

Stockport building

Salford Masterplan
Massimiliano Fuksas Architects

Salford Quays

building photo © adrian welch

School of Business Management, UMIST, Competition
1994
Stephen Hodder Architects

Selfridges Manchester
£45m store
BDP Architects with Stanton Williams
Adjaye Associates, Vincent van Duysen, Lees Associates, Cibic & Partners, Future Systems

building photo © adrian welch
Different architects to create a distinct design for each floor of the building:
Manchester Selfridges

Siemens Manchester offices, south Manchester
1991
Mills Beaumont Leavey

Sleeprz – hotel, nr. Piccadilly Railway Station
2007-
Clash Associates

Smithfield Mixed-use scheme, Northern Quarter
1998
Hodder Associates part of Design 01 consortium of architects, Design 01
Client: Ician
Redevelopment near Manchester Cathedral

South Cheshire College appoints Jefferson Sheard Architects Nov 2006


South Trafford College
2006
John McAslan & Partners

Strangeways Prison
-
Alfred Waterhouse, Architect

The Hive, Stevenson Square
2007-08
HKR Architects

Manchester building

Trinity Bridge
1995
Santiago Calatrava Architect

bridge photo © Matt Ansell
Trademark white sculptural bridge, over River Irwell to Salford
Trinity Bridge

Tutti Frutti competition
2008-

New Islington competition
Organisers: Urban Splash

University of Manchester Student Centre proposal
2007-
John McAslan & Partners

Urbis
2002
Ian Simpson Architects

building photo © adrian welch
museum, exhibition and conference centre
Urbis Manchester

Whitworth Art Gallery, south central Manchester
Ahrends Burton Koralek

Wilmot St development - adj. Mancunian Way, central Manchester
-
Ian Simpson Architects



Ian Simpson - key Manchester Buildings
Urbis, Manchester: 2002
No.1 Deansgate, Manchester: 2002
2-4 Chester Road, Castlefield, Manchester: 2005-
Beetham Tower, Manchester: 2006
Crown Building, central/north Manchester: 2006-
ATS Site, central/south Manchester: 2006-
Green Room Theatre, Manchester: 1996
Museum of Science & Industry, Manchester: 1996
Merchant's Warehouse, Castlefield, Manchester: 1997
Manchester Museum, Manchester: 2003
New Islington apartments, Manchester: 2005
Bury New Road, Salford: 2006-
Ossington Court, south Manchester: 2006-
Transport Interchange, Manchester: 2005
Sportcity, Manchester: -2008

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