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Oliver Sweeney Store, Manchester Retail Space

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Oliver Sweeney Manchester 1

Design: Urban Salon. This store building is located in Spinningfields, central Manchester, off the main high end retail street, Deansgate. The ground floor debuts a new store design for the luxury shoe brand, which is being rolled out across its store portfolio.

The glazed façade is mullion-free in order to achieve views deep into the store interior. The façade is the first of its kind. Horizontal steel rods act as wind bracing between the glazing and the building superstructure.

Manchester Central Library redevelopment news

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Manchester Central Library

Design: Ryder Architecture. Through a series of controlled but fundamental interventions, Manchester Central Library is being transformed, updated and sympathetically refurbished on the existing site and within the existing building envelope.

Allied London Spinningfields Office

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Allied London Office Spinningfields

Design: Cartwright Pickard. The application, for the last empty plot at the prestigious Spinningfields development in Manchester, was passed unanimously. Work is due to start on the construction of the building in late spring 2014. The 22,600 sqm ‘Cotton Building’ is specifically aimed at the fast expanding TMT (technology, media and telecommunications) sector.

Darwen Vale High School Blackburn

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This reconfigured school in Blackburn offers 1,200 pupils a flexible, IT-rich environment, designed to transform teaching and learning. A new three-storey 8,000m² structure is located behind the original school building.

Furness College Cumbria Building

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Global architecture, urbanism and design practice Broadway Malyan has completed the delivery of a new further education facility for 2,500 students and teaching / support staff in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria.

BIMM Manchester Music College building

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BIMM Manchester invited BKD to design a vibrant brave design scheme that will delight and impress all users and visitors whilst supporting the key day-to-day functionality of each space.

M&S Cheshire Oaks, Ellesmere Port Store

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Cheshire Oaks, the new ultra-green superstore for UK retail giant Marks & Spencer, has picked up three prestigious Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) awards: the Northwest Sustainability Award, a Northwest Award and a National Award.

Shorey Bank Housing, Lancashire Development

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Shorey Bank Darwen housing Lancashire development

A partnership between Keepmoat, Capita Symonds, Together Housing Group, and Housing 21 has been appointed by Blackburn with Darwen Council as preferred bidder to develop a new 50+ living scheme at Shorey Bank in Darwen, Lancashire.

National Graphene Institute, Manchester University

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Jestico + Whiles’ design for the new National Graphene Institute at The University of Manchester has been granted planning consent. The new £61m facility will be a world-leading research and incubator centre dedicated to the development of graphene.

Oldham College – Manchester Building

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Oldham’s area planning committee has approved plans for the first phase of Oldham College’s capital development programme, designed by Aedas, that will see its Rochdale Road campus transformed into a 21st century learning hub. Work begins on site on 4th February.

Cancer Research Centre Manchester Building

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The building will focus entirely on laboratory-based cancer research, turning laboratory discoveries into new tests and treatments for patients. Its work will be further aided by the immediate proximity of the MCRC’s partners.