GALLERY | A look at Sunlight House’s £35m revival
Karrev’s redevelopment of Manchester’s original skyscraper into a 210,000 sq ft office block was completed this month.
The refurbishment work to transform the grade two-listed, 14-storey building off Quay Street into grade A office space was carried out by G&H Group and MYCO Interiors.
Project manager Hollis, quantity surveyor Quantem, structural engineer Eckersley O’Callaghan, and architect Anomaly all contributed to the regeneration of the building.
Savills acted as planning and heritage advisors for the Sunlight House revamp.
More than 75,000 sq ft of the 210,000 sq ft Sunlight House is let, tenants include the Crown Prosecution Service and PINS Social Club.
Manchester City Council issued planning permission for the revamp to Karrev’s developer partner Kinrise in July 2023. Kinrise then left the project in February 2024.
A Karrev and Kinrise joint venture acquired the art deco Sunlight House off Aberdeen Group for £42m in August 2022.
Karrev has also announced the office’s in-house property management team will be led by Louise Dean, director of property management at Karrev, who joined the developer in March this year.
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The plastic plants look cheap.
By Anonymous
Looks fantastic.
By Anonymous
Looks fabulous. A lesson for today’s Architects in how y’all buildings should look.
By Steve
Fantastic building.
By Peter Chapman
Great result for a lovely building.
By Anonymous
Looks like a proper job that, well done. Looking forward to seeing what they do with Martins Bank now, Liverpool absolutely needs this standard of product urgently !!
By Mr Optimistic
Beautiful building and great refurbishment and fit out.
By Anonymous
Looks like a great reimagining of a fantastic building. Let’s hope the property management keep it looking this good.
Ignore the “cheap plastic plants” comment, which isn’t a critique, it’s just unnecessary negativity.
By Anon
Fantastic scheme on a very tough building to work in, well done to the main contractor
By Anonymous
What a fantastic building and refurb. Love the meeting rooms in the turrets
By Anonymous
Wonderful building. Completed in 1932.
By Anonymous
@ October 29, 2025 at 4:18 pm
By Anon
But the fake plants do look naff.
Fine refurbishment otherwise of an excellent building.
By Anonymous
I think most of it looks like its been decorated on the cheap but its great the building has been restored and the courtyard shot is amazing
By Anonymous
Hardly!
By Skyscraper???
What a stunner. Most of what I like is to do with the original building, most of the modern stuff theyve added is a bit tacky. I guess it’s a success that so much of the original is still shining.
By Anonymous
Whatever they’ve spent,worth it. One of Manchester’s jewels, well done!
By Anonymous