Answers for “who spoke in Manchester”
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Greater Manchester rising: identity, cost, and who really decides the façade
Manchester has built more than eighty tall buildings in a decade, with dozens more on the way, a surge that lands squarely on the building envelope. Two architects, a façade contractor, a façade engineer and a public-sec...
Manchester
Shaping everyday wonder: regrowing Manchester
Lucy Head and Daniel Onions walked through three Manchester and Salford regeneration projects to argue that a façade is less an enclosure than a mediator, between industrial memory and contemporary life, and between priv...
Manchester
Form, colour, texture: three residential towers on two Manchester sites
James Hind traced thirty years of high-rise work in Manchester back to a detail nobody pays for: the excess area at a tower's corners. On Plot F it generates the plan of both towers, and the flat sides between those corn...
Manchester
A façade that moves: engineering for deflection
Newly rebranded from Kawneer, Novastruct used a Manchester cancer-research building to make a narrow, useful point, that on a moving structure, the façade's real problem is deflection, and it has to be solved early.
Manchester
Heritage at height: engineering a terracotta tower on Whitworth Street
Sheppard Robson's Paul Crowther and AKT II's Elena Giraldi took one tall, tightly-constrained Manchester residential tower and showed how heritage character and hard acoustic and thermal performance get resolved together...
Manchester
