Forshaw tower at River Street approved
The construction of a stalled 42-storey residential building next to Mancunian Way by Forshaw Land & Property has been granted planning consent.
Chelmer Developments, on behalf of Dastur Trading, gained planning permission for 600 serviced apartments on the plot between River Street and Garwood Street in Manchester in January 2013. The tower was designed by Ian Simpson Architects, now SimpsonHaugh & Partners.
Construction of the scheme never began because of funding issues.
A planning application changing the internal configuration of the tower was submitted to Manchester City Council by new owner Forshaw in September, advised by SimpsonHaugh and Turley.
The proposal reduces the number of apartments from 600 to 420 and makes some minor alterations to the external design. The flats are aimed at the private rented sector market.
The tower will include 19 three-bedroom, 269 two-bedroom, and 142 one-bedroom apartments, alongside leisure facilities, a restaurant and café.
The plot is currently occupied by a concrete frame for an unfinished residential block which was abandoned in 2005 when the developer went into liquidation.
Preparatory work for the demolition of the frame has already started on site.
That looks horrible.
By James
Love a bit of height, can’t wait for this to soar.
By York Street
dull, dull, dull
By jimmymac
Manchester’s buildings look awful ..and city just keeps looking worse
By Karen
Yet another appalling dull bland and unimaginative tower to blight Manchesters skyline.
When will the city build an inspirational building that is design led from a world class architect?
Hopefully Manchester increasing rentals will drive up new build budgets and hence improve design quality, the City is so desperately short of world class design and deserve much better
By david stafford
Even the cars look dull
By Mr Forshaw
Great to see this scheme getting going. A neglected site that is an important gateway into the city.
By Elephant
Looks much better on the Forshaws twitter feed. The model of this looks very attractive with some nice detailing. It has personality. This vaseline-lensed render does it no favours
By midway
Whilst it’s an appropriate location for a tall building (unlike the Beetham), this is a huge missed opportunity. It’s Anywhere building rather than Manchester architecture on our key route into the city for first time visitors.
By Gene Walker
Fair point, but then Manchester architecture is “anywhere” architecture..?
By James
Yawn inducing, rather than awe inspiring. Then again anyone who has studied Architecture and Landscape Architecture / Urban Design will understand, that building upwards does not make the most use of the space available to the footprint. Towers are about ego’s and revenue’s based on false premise ( quite literally).A Paucity of imagination blights most towns and cities these days, because ‘building’ is about nothing but revenue based ‘ development’ rather than a statement of something other.
By Cassandra
We need to get Ian’s old boss back to design some proper iconic skyscraper’s as he’s done elsewhere in the world… it’s wrong that other than the mid-rise spinningfields buildings Lord Foster doesn’t have a signature-scraper in his home town.
By Car parker
It’s a thing of unparalleled beauty
By K Kong
So is Mancunian Way becoming Manchester’s new centre? Easy in easy out if so, apart from when it’s log jammed.
By Paul Blackburn (Chester)