Manchester’s Changing Skyline

Studio Egret West and Oval Real Estate are happy to announce that proposals for Albert Bridge House in Manchester have recieved planning approval.

Two octagonal residential towers, 49 storeys and 37 storeys in height. A commercial building, anchors the scheme, and completes the composition of octagonal forms. Lower in height. (18 storeys)

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Planning Approval for Albert Bridge House

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urban genie said:
Whether you like all these new high rises or not surely nobody can want to see this happen




Completely unecessary and for me cultural vandalism
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Same was due to happen next to the Britons’ Protection… Apex Tower.

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And is happening next to the Sir Ralph Abercromby with Neville’s tower.

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You fear for these pubs with the way the noise complaints going from new city centre residents and get upheld meaning clubs and pubs get shut down.

Even if they remained, the beer garden at the Britons would be ruined with a tower like that looming over it.
 
.db. said:
Same was due to happen next to the Britons’ Protection… Apex Tower.

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And is happening next to the Sir Ralph Abercromby with Neville’s tower.

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You fear for these pubs with the way the noise complaints going from new city centre residents and get upheld meaning clubs and pubs get shut down.

Even if they remained, the beer garden at the Britons would be ruined with a tower like that looming over it.
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Lower Turks Head also
 
bluemcr said:
Lower Turks Head also
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Shudehill? If so, The Glassworks (Salboy) is struggling. It's being marketed as offices more than half empty, with no takers. Originally applied for consent as a hotel - rejected. No doubt they will go back to planners for a change of use consent if they don't get any lettings soon.
 
Stockton Heath Blue said:
Shudehill? If so, The Glassworks (Salboy) is struggling. It's being marketed as offices more than half empty, with no takers. Originally applied for consent as a hotel - rejected. No doubt they will go back to planners for a change of use consent if they don't get any lettings soon.
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Yeah Shudehill it's an eyesore, a real shame it got planning permission. Like most things nowadays know one gives a flying fook.
 
^Glassworks is a nice enough small tower but not where it’s been situated.

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It doesn’t fit in with anything around it, lurks over the Lower Turk’s Head and Scuttlers making those interesting buildings seem unimportant.

There’s too much of this in Mcr city centre.

Replacing old buildings in areas like this should be with an ‘old town’ sort of feel where buildings compliment each other. Build new but in older style. The Town Hall, for example, was built in 1877 but is neo-gothic and looks like it was built in the 13th century. Similarly, mock-Tudor buildings look like they may have been built in 1580 but were probably built in the 1880s. Not everything new has to be steel and glass. What was the last new build that was built in an older era style?

Build areas up like a ‘new town’ in specific area where there’s some consistency and homogeneity.
 
.db. said:
^Glassworks is a nice enough small tower but not where it’s been situated.

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It doesn’t fit in with anything around it, lurks over the Lower Turk’s Head and Scuttlers making those interesting buildings seem unimportant.

There’s too much of this in Mcr city centre.

Replacing old buildings in areas like this should be with an ‘old town’ sort of feel where buildings compliment each other. Build new but in older style. The Town Hall, for example, was built in 1877 but is neo-gothic and looks like it was built in the 13th century. Similarly, mock-Tudor buildings look like they may have been built in 1580 but were probably built in the 1880s. Not everything new has to be steel and glass. What was the last new build that was built in an older era style?

Build areas up like a ‘new town’ in specific area where there’s some consistency and homogeneity.
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100% agree. Glassworks looks like it's just been dropped there. It's so at odds with the surrounding buildings.
 
Another day and another tower proposal for Manchester. :

Click on the PNW link which will take you to the public consult link.(only fair)

IQ Student Accommodation’s 2,500-unit reimagination of its Weston Hall and Pendulum Hotel site on Charles Street will deliver five buildings in total, including two more towers of 32- and 24-storeys.

The 50-storey element would be delivered in phase one alongside an 18-storey effort and a nine-storey link building. Phase two would see the 32- and 24-storey towers come forward.

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www.placenorthwest.co.uk

50-storey skyscraper features in IQ’s vision for Manchester PBSA overhaul - Place North West

IQ Student Accommodation’s 2,500-unit reimagination of its Weston Hall and Pendulum Hotel site on Charles Street will five buildings in total, including two more towers of 32- and 24-storeys.
www.placenorthwest.co.uk www.placenorthwest.co.uk
 
jrb said:
Another day and another tower proposal for Manchester. :

Click on the PNW link which will take you to the public consult link.(only fair)

IQ Student Accommodation’s 2,500-unit reimagination of its Weston Hall and Pendulum Hotel site on Charles Street will deliver five buildings in total, including two more towers of 32- and 24-storeys.

The 50-storey element would be delivered in phase one alongside an 18-storey effort and a nine-storey link building. Phase two would see the 32- and 24-storey towers come forward.

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www.placenorthwest.co.uk

50-storey skyscraper features in IQ’s vision for Manchester PBSA overhaul - Place North West

IQ Student Accommodation’s 2,500-unit reimagination of its Weston Hall and Pendulum Hotel site on Charles Street will five buildings in total, including two more towers of 32- and 24-storeys.
www.placenorthwest.co.uk www.placenorthwest.co.uk
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That's where I normally stay when I'm over for a game. Isn't it classed as Sackville St, though? Charles Street is around the corner, where the multi storey car park is.
 
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The 2 pictures are screen grabbed from the video.

The video also features drone footage of the Nobu site.

The Domis/Viadux office is directly opposite the site. Shown in the video.

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New proposals for Hotspur Press after the devastating fire that destroyed much of the building.

The update letter from Manner.

Originally posted by iwillo.

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Hotspur Press regen emerges from ashes after blaze - Place North West

Developer Manner has worked up revised proposals for the site of the former mill destroyed in a fire in June that will see parts of the building that were due to be retained recreated in a scheme that features a 35-storey tower.
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Hotspur Press Manchester

The Hotspur Press forms part of Manchester’s industrial heritage. Built on the bank of the Medlock in 1801, this former cotton mill has had many uses but is now sadly in a state of disrepair. There have long been hopes it can be repurposed for the modern era in order that it can regain its status as
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jrb said:
Produced by VDB, one of the SSC-MCR forum members.

Well worth a watch.

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Not been on this thread for yonks and was just about to post the same. A really informative video. Unbelievable the lack of credit Sir Howard Berstein received. I noticed it mentioned how centralised government was hindering it's expansion. Something quite topical with Burnham showing his frustration of the same. Last weekend we had friends up from Wiltshire. I couldn't believe the gridlock around Manchester. If the council are deliberately frustrating road users in an attempt for them to use public transport then I suggest they pull their finger out !!
 
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