The Crafty Pig Bar in Manchester

The Crafty Pig Bar in Manchester

Design: DV8 Designs. The objective was to produce a welcoming urban hub that echoes the attributes of The Blind Pig, whilst adding in signature characteristics to make the new site stand out from the crowd

Middlewood Locks Manchester Development

Middlewood Locks Manchester Development

Design: WCEC Architects. Detailed planning consent submitted for second phase of Middlewood Locks development, a 24-acre new residential and commercial neighbourhood: 546 homes in 4 buildings.

University of Central Lancashire in Preston

University of Central Lancashire in Preston student centre

Hawkins\Brown wins University of Central Lancashire campus gateway competition – RIBA competition to design a new circa £60 million student support centre and civic square for the UCLan in Preston, Lancashire.

Maggies Centre in Oldham Healthcare

Maggies Centre in Oldham

Design: dRMM, architects. Construction starts on the world’s first permanent building built with hardwood cross-laminated timber (CLT). Built within the grounds of The Royal Oldham Hospital, the new Centre will complement the encology clinical care offered by the hospital.

MediaCityUK Expansion at Salford Quays

MediaCityUK

Design: Chapman Taylor Architects. MediaCityUK to double in size with ten new buildings in a development of over £1 billion: major new offices, BBC production facilities and studios, a hotel, University of Salford building, an energy centre, plus retail and catering facilities.

Manchester Toast Rack Flats

Manchester Toast Rack Flats

Renewal Design: Ollier Smurthwaite / SixTwo Architects. The Toastrack proposal is to refurbish and re-use the post-war Grade II listed Hollings Park Campus buildings. The unusual Brutalist building was designed by the city architect and completed in 1960.

St. John’s Residential Villages Manchester

St. John’s Village Manchester

Design: Geraghty Taylor Architects. Award-winning creative property developers, Allied London have revealed the details of their first, two residential communities within their St. John’s neighbourhood.

MediaCityUK Expansion Salford Quays

MediaCityUK

Design: Chapman Taylor. MediaCityUK is set to double in size over the next decade under ambitious plans with ten new buildings envisaged with a development value of more than £1 billion.

Circle Square Development Manchester

Circle Square Development

Design: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios. The vision for Oxford Road’s new neighbourhood is closer to realisation after joint venture partners Select Property Group and Bruntwood were given planning permission for the biggest planning application of the scheme.

Engineering Campus for Manchester University

Engineering Campus

Design: Mecanoo, architects. The University of Manchester receives planning permission to create a £350m engineering campus designed by this celebrated Dutch architecture practice. MECD will be one of the largest UK higher education construction projects.

Moorside Open Design Competition, Cumbria

NuGen’s Moorside power station in West Cumbria

Architects shortlised for RIBA Moorside architecture competition – anonymous design contest asked designers to come up with architecture and landscape ideas for Europe’s largest new nuclear power station.

Exchange Court Greengate Building Salford

Exchange Court Tallest residential tower in Salford

Design: OMI Architects. A scheme for 349 apartments approved, within the Greengate/Exchange quarter of Salford, close to Manchester City centre. The largest element is a 44 storey rectilinear point block.

University of Central Lancashire Engineering

University of Central Lancashire Engineering Innovation Centre

Manchester based SimpsonHaugh and Partners will lead on the design of the £30m plus Engineering Innovation Centre (EIC) in collaboration with Reiach and Hall Architects. BDP will provide the engineering expertise for the project.