Birley Fields – Manchester Academic Building
Capita Symonds has been appointed by Sir Robert McAlpine Ltd to provide multidisciplinary design services on Manchester Metropolitan University’s (MMU) new £60m Birley Fields academic building in Hulme.
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Whitworth Art Gallery Manchester
MUMA selected as the architectural practice who will shape the Whitworth Art Gallery’s vision for the future. The practice won this opportunity through a RIBA architectural competition held following Whitworth’s award of a first-round pass from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Chetham’s School of Music, Manchester
Design: Roger Stephenson Architects. Roger Stephenson Architects has completed its radical £36 million overhaul and extension of Chetham’s School of Music Campus, Manchester. The new building will comprise a 350 seat Concert Hall, a 100 seat Recital Hall, a full academic school and over a hundred music teaching and practice spaces.
Chester Theatre Building, Cheshire Arts venue
The scheme, on a site in the centre of the historic city, includes the transformation of the redundant Grade II listed Odeon cinema which dates from 1936.
Piccadilly Basin Public Artwork – Manchester
The Office for Subversive Architecture has given its unique twist to Manchester’s Piccadilly Basin as part of the Cultural Olympiad.
House in Bowden: Residence in Lancashire
North House is a substantial detached family home in a street of impressive Victorian villas and is an example of how an uncompromisingly contemporary house can sit comfortably and calmly in a conservation area.
Brockholes Nature Reserve, Visitor Centre Preston
The visitor centre at Brockholes is a cluster of buildings set in a lake on a floating pontoon, which responds to changing water levels in the flood plain. The architect has broken down what is a sizeable scheme into a simple and engaging village of buildings.
Blackpool Wedding Venue – Festival House
Blackpool is a town in need of regeneration, and a key to achieving this is building upon the history of the town’s identity as a centre for entertainment and vacation.
Manchester Music Scene – Madchester
Although other cities such as Rome or Prague are prettier there’s something about Manchester that is magnetic. It may not be as big as London but it oozes a charming edginess through the brutal industrial remnants and the pervasive swagger of its people.
University Technical College Burnley: UTC Building
Planning has been submitted for a new University Technical College (UTC) at Burnley in Lancashire which is being supported by major employers from across the aerospace, nuclear, technology, and green energy industries.
South Cheshire College Building
South Cheshire College is the largest most modern FE scheme that we have designed to date. Developed and managed by Jefferson Sheard, this scheme includes construction workshops and art studios amongst other general teaching curriculums areas, sport and leisure all combined in a single building.
Greater Manchester Police Authority HQ
The Ask Goodman joint venture and architects Aedas are celebrating after winning a British Council of Offices North award for best corporate workplace for the 240,000 sqft Greater Manchester Police Force Headquarters at Central Park, east Manchester.
One St Peters Square, Manchester civic quarter
Manchester Council launched an international competition to redesign the historic square after revealing plans for a multi-million pound makeover of the civic quarter in 2009.
Media CityUK Salford Quays Development
Sheppard Robson has submitted planning for the ‘B4 Building’; a highly sustainable 32,000m² mixed use building at Peel Media Ltd’s burgeoning Media CityUK development.