Manchester Building News, 2008, England, Info, Property, Projects, Photos

Manchester Building News 2008

Contemporary Property Developments in northwest England, UK

Manchester Building News in 2008

Manchester Law Courts

photograph : Tim Griffith
Manchester Civil Justice Centre wins RIBA Award

RIBA Competitions Exhibition
CUBE Gallery Exhibition

Halliwells
Design: ID:SR, Sheppard Robson
Halliwells Manchester Building
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Spinningfields Manchester office

Spinningfields Office
Design: HKR Architects
Pinsent Masons fit-out

Chancery Place, Booth Street
Design: HKR Architects

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Chancery Place development

Tutti Frutti competition
Tutti Frutti Manchester Building News
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New Islington competition : 6 schemes on board

New Islington

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Manchester Millennium Community

National Opera House proposal, east Manchester
2008-
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£250m, for Royal Opera House, London

Manchester housing
Design: Union North

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Manchester towers : Three residential towers for Urban Splash

Forty Springardens
Design: Architects : Aedas

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Manchester office building

Northern Gateway – Co-operative Group Masterplan Competition
Winner, Mar 2008: Arup-led consortium
Finalists incl. BDP, Heneghan Peng & KPF
Location: Miller Street / Corporation Street, nr. Cathedral, north of city centre

Dalton Street Approval
Outline planning permission granted for proposals for Dalton Street residential scheme by Calder Peel Carden Croft Architects for developer Michael Marsden, up to 18 storeys high

Owen Street development
Design: Ian Simpson Architects

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Manchester building : Planning approval Jan 2008

Chill Factor e, Trafford
2008
Design: FaulknerBrowns Associates

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Exchange Greengate
Design: Fielden Clegg Bradley

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Salford building

Office building, Chatham St
Design: Reid Architects
competition win, £8m – 10 storeys
Adj. Grade II listed former Barclays bank included, for MCR Property Group

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Quay Bar, Castlefield
Stephenson Bell building demolished late 2007 for Ian Simpson Architects’ 15-storey residential project – Piccadilly Basin redevelopment

Murray’s Mills Ancoats Village
Design: BDP Architects

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Manchester development

Upper Brook Street Building, south Manchester
Design: Makin Architecture

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Manchester building

Axis tower, Albion Street
HKR Architects
Axis Tower
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Manchester tower

Boddingtons Brewery Site – Masterplan, Strangeways, northwest Manchester
2007-
Design: HOK

mediacity:uk – masterplan, Salford Quays
Benoy Architects
mediacity:uk manchester
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Salford development : BBC’s buildings

Adelphi Street tower, Salford
SMC Alsop
Adelphi Street Salford
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Manchester tower building

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

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

Abito, Greengate, Salford
2007
BDP
Abito Salford
photo : David Barbour/BDP
Salford housing

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

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

Chips, New Islington
Alsop Architects‘ project on site
New Islington building

The Hive, Stevenson Square
2007-
HKR Architects

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The Hive Manchester

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

Wilmot St development – adj. Mancunian Way, central Manchester
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Ian Simpson Architects
£30m approx.; Developer: Downing Developments
offices + apartments
Two buildings connected by landscaped podium
30 storey tower : 300 key worker apartments
lower building : 350 student bedrooms

2 – 4 Chester Road, Castlefield Basin apartments, central Manchester
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Ian Simpson Architects
Developer: Sterling Capitol; 90 apartments + new pedestrian link
detailed planning consent

Canopus Greengate – two towers
Arca Architects
£50m mixed-use Salford development
Planning permission received end of 2007

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

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

Proposed Tower, Salford
2007-
HKR Architects
Salford Tower

South Cheshire College
Jefferson Sheard Architects

Beetham Tower – Tallest residential tower in Europe
2007
Ian Simpson Architects

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Manchester Hilton

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

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

Location: Manchester, Northwest England, UK