Phase 1 of the Viadux development consists of a 40-storey residential tower built over and through the Grade II listed viaduct at the rear of Manchester Central Convention Centre (MCCC).
The upper storeys of the development provide 375 high quality residential apartments, with residential amenity provision to the lower three storeys including: a landscaped podium roof provided over the MCCC service yard, amenity spaces at both the service yard level and within the repurposed brick viaduct undercroft at ground level.
Renaissance was appointed to the project post-planning, in 2019. The client’s brief was to re-appraise the consented structural scheme with a view to improving buildability, rationalisation of the structural frame design and challenge the key constraints impacting the development.
The complexities of designing and constructing the tower whilst re-purposing the viaduct structure at ground floor level have shaped the structural form of the building. To safeguard and incorporate the existing listed asset into the scheme and maintain full operation of the MCCC service yard to the top of the viaduct during the construction phase, a fully collaborative approach between the design and construction teams was required.
Co-op Live was announced as the winner of the Building of the Year Award 2024 at the Property & Construction Annual Dinner on 6th March at Imperial War Museum North - read more here.
Previous winners include: The Christie Paterson Building (2023), Energy House 2.0 (2022), RHS Garden Bridgewater (2021), The Oglesby Centre at Halle St Peters (2020), Manchester Alliance Business School (2019), The Christie Proton Beam Therapy Centre (2018), Oldham Town Hall (2017) Maggie’s Manchester (2016), The Whitworth (2015), Manchester Central Library (2014) and No. 1 Riverside, Rochdale (2013).