GALLERY | £250m Kampus completes in Manchester
After five years, work on Capital&Centric and HBD’s neighbourhood project has finished, resulting in more than 500 apartments boasting amenity spaces that include a cinema and gym.
The amenity spaces were the last to be unveiled and include a private dining room, terrace, and secluded podium garden for Kampus residents to enjoy. Kampus also offers residents 24-hour concierge service, dog walking and dry-cleaning services as well as physical therapy sessions and yoga classes.
Residents have been living in the apartments on the site since last year.
A series of independent businesses are to set up shop at Kampus in the next few months. Chief among them is popular bakery Pollen, Cloudwater Brewery, Great North Pie Co, and General Store.
An array of public events is also planned for the summer.
“We’ve found the community vibe at Kampus to be a real pull for people wanting to live here,” said the development’s community manager, Adam Condron.
“The community is really diverse, but they share the desire not to live in a dull, isolated apartment where you never say hello to your neighbour,” he continued. As well as the awesome, lush gardens and events, people love the fact they can rent a design-led apartment and feel like they’re part of a proper neighbourhood.
“The new amenity spaces only add to the experience of living at Kampus, offering nice places to hang out with mates as well we as take part in the whole programme of health, wellbeing and social clubs with the aim bringing people together.”
Capital&Centric co-founder Adam Higgins emphasised that creating a neighbourhood feel was always the goal.
“Every inch of Kampus has been designed to help foster a real community and create connections between neighbours,” he said. “That sense of neighbourhood has been lost of the years, we wanted to bring it back for people wanting to rent in the city centre,” he continued.
“Whether its neighbours catching a film together, getting their hands dirty at gardening club, swapping stories around a BBQ in the summer or using the lounge to work from home, the new Kampus spaces support a really social lifestyle.”
Planning permission for Kampus was granted in 2016. Set on Manchester Metropolitan University’s former Aytoun Street campus, the 2.3-acre site included two listed Victorian warehouses and a 60s brutalist tower. Both have since been converted into modern apartments.
The scheme was designed by Dutch architect Mecanoo, with ShedKM and ChapmanTaylor leading on the refurbishment of listed warehouses and on new-build elements, respectively. Exterior Architecture designed the landscape and public realm.
Mount Anvil was the lead contractor for the scheme.
Click any image to launch the gallery. All photos are provided by Kampus.
- The residents' gym at Kampus.
- The resident lounge at Kampus.
- Private dining at Kampus.
- The podium garden at Kampus.
- The cinema at Kampus
- Grade two-listed Minto & Turner warehouse is now apartments.
- The old Minshull warehouse is now apartments.
- Inside one of the apartments in the former warehouses.
- Inside one of the apartments in the former warehouses.
- One of the apartments in The Stack, the brutalist tower at Kampus.
- One of the apartments in The Stack, the brutalist tower at Kampus.
- One of the apartments in The Stack, the brutalist tower at Kampus.
- The residents' terrace at Kampus.
- HBD and Capital&Centric formed a JV to build Kampus.
