Located on King Street in the heart of Manchester’s central business district, Pall Mall could not be more different from its London namesake. Completed in 1968, the Manchester building features a distinctive dark bronze-coloured facade characterised by projecting rectangular oriel windows arranged vertically in pairs separated by modest gaps. The glazing to the oriel windows are also bronze-tinted and are a marker of the period from which this building dates.

Pall Mall Court, to use the building’s original name, was considered sufficiently special to warrant grade II listing in 2000. Unfortunately, a key feature behind the listing, the facade, performed so badly that the building had been all but abandoned despite its prime location; being used for storage rather than as a workplace.