Weird Landmark building in Manchester, UK. 24th March, 2014. 'Chips Building' focal point of Marina Construction boom near Islington Wharf, ISIS Waterside Regeneration — a joint venture between Muse Developments and the Canal & River Trust, a residential scheme on the Ashton Canal, part of the New Islington, New East Manchester area. 'CHIPS' The first, award-winning phase of the scheme was completed in 2008 and is now fully occupied. ISIS received planning permission for the second phase of development, Islington Wharf Mews, in November 2012 and construction has now commenced.
Developer Urban Splash’s New Islington project in Manchester has been so talked about, so celebrated, so published, that it comes as a shock to be reminded that it is mostly not there. It is largely an empty plain awaiting regeneration; nibbled at the edges by FAT’s boisterous Woodward Place housing and a quieter terrace by de Metz Forbes Knight. Soil has been decontaminated, and the existing Ashton and Rochdale canals have been extended to create future waterside living. A kind of high street, with fine landscaping by Grant Associates and bus shelters by FAT, stands awaiting buildings to line its sides. The listed remnant of Ancoats Hospital awaits restoration. Otherwise, void. It will remain so for longer than anyone would have hoped, which gives greater importance to Chips, the new nine-storey block of 142 one, two and three-bedroom flats designed by Alsop Architects. The building must, for now, command the expanse before it. It must be a billboard for a future that will arrive at in 2014.
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Location: Manchester, UK.
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