FCBS gets go-ahead for ‘distinctly Mancunian’ art deco block
By Jim Dunton2019-10-24T06:00:00
Twenty-two storey scheme will replace 1970s office building opposite Arndale Centre
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios has been given the green-light for a 22-storey mixed-use building in Manchester city centre that it says will be “distinctly Mancunian”.
The High Street development, which references nearby art deco buildings – such as the grade II-listed Sunlight House and Rylands Building – won the backing of members of the authority’s planning and highways committee at a meeting last week.
Set to deliver 361 new apartments as well as ground-floor retail space, the development will also reopen historic routes through the site as arcades, including the reinstatement of Stationer’s Court as a publicly accessible covered square.
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