Phoenix Building, Manchester
A new 10-storey apartment block in Manchester. The scheme delivered a mix of 75 one and two-bedroom contemporary apartments.
Wetheralds completed full internal decorations on this project.
The build stands on the footprint of a former cotton mill, as part of the collection of original mid-nineteenth century Grade II listed Crusader mill buildings.
The building is an external pre-cast concrete frame grid, with infills of stack bonded brickwork, and full height glazing.
The two ‘wings’ of the building are expressed within the façade articulation, with a sharp cladded box at high level to express the circulation core.
Apartments have been designed to convey a high degree of design and construction quality, and there is a degree of honesty within the building design, which is expressed both internally and externally.
The soffits to the apartments are primarily left exposed, other than in areas where plasterboard is used to cover services. As such, services such as luminaires, sprinklers, detectors etc are left intentionally exposed, and are expressly set out to align with key features of the layouts.