Citizens Design Bureau’s Manchester Jewish Museum and Tonkin Liu’s Tower of Light and Wall of Energy in the city are among 10 projects shortlisted for RIBA North West Awards this year.

CDB, which was named Public Building Architect of the Year 2022 at Building Design’s Architect of the Year Awards, created new gallery space and a café at a grade II*-listed former synagogue for its project, which was backed with £5.5m of Heritage Lottery Fund support.

Tonkin Liu’s shortlisted scheme combines a 40m high tower enclosing flues for a low-carbon energy centre in Manchester city centre with a 63m-long street-facing façade covered in glazed ceramic tiles. The tower uses the shell-lace structure the practice has developed in conjunction with Arup.

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