Manchester

Dutch studio OMA has completed its first major public building in the UK, Aviva Studios, designed to provide flexible event space for Manchester-based arts and music company Factory International. Located along Manchester’s River Irwell, OMA claims the 13,350-square-metre project is “the UK’s largest investment in a national cultural project since the opening of Tate Modern

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Architecture studio Sheppard Robson has remodelled the New Century Hall music venue in Manchester, restoring, rationalising and “opening up” the Grade-II listed structure. Originally constructed in 1963 as a conference centre for the Cooperative Wholesale Society, at night the hall played host to acts including Jimi Hendrix, Tina Turner and The Rolling Stones. Sheppard Robson’s

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Weathered-steel planters feature in the linear park that London studio Twelve Architects and the National Trust conservation charity have created on the disused Castlefield Viaduct in Manchester. Described by the team as a “sky park”, the overhaul transforms the Victorian cast-iron and steel railway structure into an inviting green space in the city’s cultural heart.

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London-based Studio Egret West has designed Mayfield Park in Manchester, which is said to be the city’s first new central park in more than 100 years. The 6.5-acre park was created by the public-private Mayfield Partnership and opened to the public last week. It has been built as part of a neighbourhood containing 1,500 homes,

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Dezeen promotion: property developer Salboy has unveiled plans to convert the Victorian arches under the former Manchester Central railway station into luxury facilities for a new residential tower. Salboy is working with Manchester-based architecture practice SimpsonHaugh on Viadux, a development that will create 399 one- and two-bedroom apartments over 40 storeys, as well as a separate office

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UK studio Citizens Design Bureau has renovated and extended a heritage-listed synagogue to create a museum that “tells the stories of Jewish Mancunians”. Set between a builder’s merchant and a self-storage company in the Cheetham Hill area of Manchester, the studio aimed to create a building that would complement the industrial surroundings, but also be intriguing.

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