
Demolition date set for Piccadilly Gardens wall
Work to knock down the freestanding part of Japanese architect Tadao Ando’s controversial concrete wall will begin on 16 November, Manchester City Council has confirmed.
Work to knock down the freestanding part of Japanese architect Tadao Ando’s controversial concrete wall will begin on 16 November, Manchester City Council has confirmed.
Todd Architects has opened a new Manchester studio, with ex-IBI director Seamus Lennon at the helm.
Interior design studio NoChintz has been appointed to design the fit-out of Capital & Centric’s 14-storey Leonardo-branded hotel in the Piccadilly East district.
A draft strategic framework to redevelop the North Manchester General Hospital site into a £600m “healthy living campus” is tipped for sign-off by the council on Thursday and a public consultation will follow.
The oldest building on the University of Manchester’s under construction engineering campus has been renovated and extended, to provide a heritage focus for the £400m scheme.
The next phase of Manchester’s St Mary’s Parsonage masterplan has been unveiled, a 14-storey building to replace two ageing offices on Parsonage Gardens.
The developer has unveiled the final phase of its Manchester Gardens residential community, two apartment blocks of 13 and 11 storeys on the corner of Ellesmere Street in the city centre.
The Manchester-based developer has lodged plans to build an apartment scheme known as Osborne Yard, on Oldham Road north of the city centre.
Manchester’s grade two-listed Kendal Milne building on Deansgate, home to House of Fraser, is to be redeveloped into offices with some retail retained on the ground floor, under proposals from its South African owner.
The design firm has been appointed as the lead architect for a major redevelopment of the North Manchester General Hospital, being led by the local NHS trust and its delivery partners including Bruntwood.