Salboy’s 76-storey Manchester skyscraper to include high-end hotel
Viadux phase two will be redesigned so that a 160-bedroom upmarket hotel can be accommodated on its lower floors in a move away from a purely residential scheme.
Salboy is expected to submit fresh plans for the 76-storey skyscraper in the coming weeks having secured an “exciting global brand” to operate the hotel element.
A consultation on the revised proposals is now live – have your say: viadux2-consultation
The proposed hotel is understood to be a high-end brand that does not currently have a presence in Manchester. It inclusion in the tower will see the number of apartments reduced from 782 to 452.
Viadux phase two has been redesigned to accommodate the hotel and will stand 4.65 metres taller than the original proposal with the same number of storeys.
The commercial unit previously proposed at ground floor level has been replaced with an entrance to the 76-storey skyscraper to be shared by residents and hotel guests.
Plans for a standalone 23-storey block comprising 133 affordable properties remain unchanged.
SimpsonHaugh Architects is leading on the design of Viadux phase two. The same practice designed the nearby Beetham Tower, which also features a hotel – Hilton – on its lower floors and apartments on its upper levels.
“The addition of the hotel will not only elevate the development but also support Manchester’s growing tourism and visitor economy,” said Simon Ismail, managing director and co-founder at Salboy.
“This mixed-use development will be easily accessible by public transport and ensure that the benefits of the development extend across the city, contributing to Manchester’s ongoing growth and transformation.”
Salboy has previous when it comes to attracting high-end operators to its developments.
Last year, another of the developer’s projects – St Michael’s phase two – secured hotel brand W to operate a five-star venue within the development’s 40-storey tower.
The original plans for Viadux phase two, which will become the tallest building in the UK outside London once complete, were submitted earlier this year.
“With Phase One of Viadux now completed, we’re excited to carry this momentum into phase two,” Ismail added.
“Our vision is to create a destination where people can live, visit and enjoy, combining high-quality homes, amenities and vibrant public
spaces.”
Project team
Planit is advising on landscape, and Deloitte is the planning consultant. The project manager is Artal. Jameson Acoustics is advising on acoustics. Rounding out the project team are structural engineer Renaissance, building services and sustainability consultant Ridge, transport expert SLR Consulting, facade engineer WSP, daylight and sunlight consultant GIA, ecologist Penny Anderson Associates, archaeology consultant University of Salford, Stephen Levrant: Heritage Architecture, Design Fire Consultants, Brownfield Solutions, and Architectural Aerodynamics.
It’s a world class project. It will add significant appeal to Manchesters skyline and provide hundreds of jobs not only in the construction phase but long term at the hotel and in maintenance jobs for the tower too. It’s great to see UK cities growing upwards. Big fan of this. People that decide this recent emergence of Manchester into a skyscraper city should realise that Manchester has always, always, been at the forefront of change and transformation, it sets standards and it’s now doing that for other UK cities.
By Cristoforo
Can not wait to hear who the hotel operator is. This is excellent news. With a new 100k stadium to be built at OT and the new coop live you would think major high end hotel chains are looking at Manchester with a keen eye
By Bob
AMAZING!! The tallest building in the UK (except London) built on brownfeild. Not just a rectangular box either. Get it built ASAP please. Manchester is booming!
By We're just Normal men
As resident of liverpool – I’m very jealous
By Stuart wood
Fantastic news. I’d love to see more mixed use towers. Hopefully some office/hotel and office/resi perhaps. Can’t wait to find out who the hotel operator is. And no doubt Salboy will have a site and tower planned to accommodate the 300+ apartments cut from this scheme.
By Neil Finn
@stuart wood, don’t be silly
By Anonymous
Well done Manchester you truly are ambitious and have great leadership that delivers . We have people in Liverpool calling for social housing on a waterfront that’s where we are currently in 2024 .
By Anonymous
Hotels add vibrancy to a building, which residential alone does not. This is good news. The skyscraper district of Manchester, looks spectacular but at street level, is sterile. This might make it more of a destination, than a dormitory.
By Elephant
Nice to see a tallboy from Salboy
By Giant Skyscraper Fan
Why does every tall building in Manchester lack a proper ‘crown’ all just cut off flat topped blocks. Ambition in building tall is great. But all cities will build tall over time, it will be less novelty and we should strive for at least a bit of quality aesthetics than floor counting.
By Clag
What a city! Remarkable transformation over the last 15 years and the pipeline of developments over the next 5 years will see it dramatically change again.
COME ON MANCHESTER!!!!!
By Mr Mcr
Does that mean we’ll get the bottom
half the tower with a completely different aesthetic to the top half as with Beetham? I wouldn’t want such a prominent building to look as messy as Beetham does
By Anonymous
Salboy are really letting the side down here by showing that on-site affordable housing provision at scale is entirely possible in a very high-quality development on a complicated site.
By Rotringer
Great to see further development of manchester city centre. Is the infrastructure going to be developed at the same time such as roads and transport and sewerage to accommodate this extra capacity
By Anonymous
Liverpool is my home City…..its a shame we cannot keep up with Manchester 🙁
By Liver
Has Warrington Council and tax payers provided additional funding for this project?
By Taxpayerscash
Would love the ‘exciting global brand’ to be Ritz Carlton.
By Phil
Judging by the number of over enthusiast comments is it possible that one person has got carried away with the keyboard? High time we had accounts for comments.
By Creative Realist
Hi Creative Realist – we strive to not allow multiple similar comments from the same IP address up, which is about as good as it gets to ensuring that one person doesn’t just dominate the section. The comments on this story come from different addresses.
Re: your unpublished comment re: commenter of the year – very cute. I’ll put you in the running. – Julia
By Julia Hatmaker
I live opposite in Axis Tower. I can’t wait for this to completely block the view out of my window and mean I get absolutely no natural light while I work from home.
By Anonymous
Imagine being a Manc pretending to be a Scouser who loves rubbish skyscrapers
By Anonymous
Why spoil the skyline with endless boring recycled tin cans. Someone, somewhere is going to be lacking fresh air & sunlight in the near dystopia future. Covid showed us there’s a higher risk of infection for disease in this type of housing ( hundreds of people all pressing one button breathing the same air) have we learnt nothing from past mistakes
By Janet Breeze
Not more mediocrity from Simpson Haugh!!!
By Justin Beevor
Janet Breeze – would you rather we built more and more two-storey houses sprawling into the countryside, meaning less countryside for us all to enjoy? Why not just live and let live and accept that some people enjoy living in apartments and prefer them to living in some dull, dreary suburb?
By Anonymous
We don’t want height here, let’s develop Greenfield instead….yawn…. great scheme, crack on
By Cheggers
Great to see the dark tunnel roof being lifted off, but retaining the arches.
By Albert
Finally, after so long of no news so glad to see that work will be going ahead on this project. Especially with the redesign I think it looks slick it has extra lines but who cares. In fact, the only change that was probably made was an extra height of 4 m which is a bonus W.
By Skyscraper expert (Professional)
As far as design goes, this is exciting for Manchester. I hope it doesn’t become more straight-up-with-a-flat-roof. There is form…
By Tom
Creative Realist, just because it doesn’t agree with your inner narrative doesn’t mean it isn’t real. This is excellent..that’s my opinion too and that’s real.
By Anonymous
Likes of New York and London know how to do talls.
By Jake
A very industrious project , built on similar lines as they have been doing in Dubai 👏👏👏
By Kishore Nanwani
Can you put one of these buildings where Piccadilly Gardens is? or do something to improve the city for the existing residents instead of just attracting newer wealthier ones as you’ve done for the last 25 years? The city is an unsafe dump yet the rent increases with the crimes rate.
By Jim
This is great. Brilliant. Amazing stuff. But I can’t help but think to welcome things like this, the City centre also needs just a simple clean and tidy. Jet wash, demolish some of the 60s rubbish. Eg Piccadilly. And for Me Arndale has had it’s day, time to go, can’t someone build a modern “mall” or shopping streets
By Mcr TNG
Who would have thought that “The Taxi Driver” would invest in good old Manchester?
By Stevethemanc