Allied’s Castlefield House creative hub moves forward
Flanked by a pair of business incubator hubs, the redevelopment of a 22,000 sq ft office building in Manchester has taken a step forward.
Allied London has lodged plans to repurpose the six-storey Castlefield House on Liverpool Road into a facility for media production and content creation.
Designed by Studio Hart, the scheme will see the vacant office block refurbished internally, providing studios for creatives.
The exterior will also be tidied up and modernised through the addition of aluminium fins and a grey colour palette.
The car park on the Liverpool Road side of the building will be removed and replaced with an area of public realm.
Castlefield House is one part of a masterplan that comprises a hat-trick of buildings. Work to convert the Upper and Lower Campfield Market buildings into incubator space for creative start-ups is ongoing thanks to more than £17m of government funding.
To learn more about the plans for Castlefield House, search for reference number 141586/FO/2024 on Manchester City Council’s planning portal.
Zerum is advising Allied on planning matters.
Did they do the visualisation on an etch-a-sketch?
By YIMBY
The most uncreative creative “hub” ive ever seen!
Disaster. Get rid.
By Anonymous
I have to say I am surprised this building is still standing – it needed demolition in 1986
By Anonymous
Surely the creativity is what will happen inside and not what the admittedly not very good renders look like?
Painting everything grey is generally disappointing and less classy than people think – when inflicted on houses it often comes with astroturf lawns and matching black SUVs – but if this keeps the rent down for new and small businesses, surely a good thing.
At the other end of the East Lancs Road, the building would already have been turned into tiny flats on the cheap and with even less attention to appearances.
By Rotringer