Two huge buildings planned for Manchester city centre
Two new skyscrapers are to be added to Manchester’s ever-changing sky-line.
A planning application has been lodged with the council for a 51-storey and a 21-storey block of flats.
The two buildings will be the latest in a series of major projects which dominate the city centre.
The two new buildings will be Crown Street, between Chester Road and the Mancunian Way.
They will be part of a new neighbourhood of skyscrapers between Hulme and the city centre, which is being called the Great Jackson Street district.
The skyscrapers will be linked by a podium building and will include 660 flats for rent.
Developer DQ Investments, a subsidiary of Renaker Build, is behind the project.
The latest scheme, called Crown Gate phase 1, has been designed by architect SimpsonHaugh with
Yorkshire-based DP Squared providing structural engineering and Beechfield Consulting Engineers M&E design services.
The scheme will include car parking and landscaping as well as a residents’ swimming pool, gym and communal garden.
A design and access statement submitted to the council states that the development will ‘change the immediate context and scale of the area’.
It adds: “The area will be transformed from a series of vacant surface car parks to clusters of mid / high rise buildings to the south of the city centre.”
A series of major buildings are planned for the city centre.
The tallest will be the 67-storey Trinity Islands scheme near Liverpool Road.
Designed by Child Graddon Lewis architects, it will include 1,200 homes in six inter-connecting residential towers.
Once complete it will be the tallest residential building in the North West, dwarfing Beetham Tower, Manchester’s current tallest, by 20 storeys.
A series of buildings are also planned for the Owen Street area of the city.
Work has started on the development which will include 1,500 new flats.
The largest of the four towers at 64 storeys will be the second tallest in the city.
