Trafford Design Code

Commercial and Non-residential Buildings

Here East, London

Here East, London by Hawkins/Brown for Here East, Infinity SDC and Delancey Map Street View Map Street View This project involves the transformation of the former Press and Broadcast Centres on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park site into a 120,000m² innovation campus for the creative tech community. The original buildings constructed for the Olympics were …

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One Angel Square

One Angel Square Manchester by 3D Reid for the Co-Operative Group Map Street View Map Street View One Angel Square is an award-winning £100 million low-energy, highly sustainable new headquarters for the Co-operative Group in Manchester city centre. Twelve distinct Co-operative businesses are accommodated within One Angel Square headquarters building, a step change in efficiency compared with …

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125 Deansgate

125 Deansgate by Glenn Howells Architects A strikingly crafted 12-storey office building on a key Manchester thoroughfare, 125 Deansgate learns from the architectural ambition of its High Victorian neighbours to inform a composed yet bold contemporary design language for 21st century Manchester. Source: Glenn Howells Architects Map Street View Map Street View Gallery

Brentwood School

Brentwood School by Cottrell & Vermeulen Architecture A new, sheltering, spine threads together and brings sense to the disparate collection of buildings, sometimes manifest as a canopy and – beneath the new teaching block – as an arcade. Adopting a classic nine square villa plan, this new teaching building provides a reception to the preparatory …

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Wellington Place, Leeds

Wellington Place, Leeds by DLG, Arup, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios Architects (FCBS), Carey Jones and Gillespies, Martha Schwartz (Landscape) Wellington Place marks an important part of Leeds’ industrial history. The site was once home to Wellington Station and a confluence of goods rail-yards, the remaining wagon hoist tower of which stands in Tower Square to …

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Altrincham Health and Wellbeing Centre

Altrincham Health and Wellbeing centre by AFL Architects for Citybranch / Trafford Clinical Commissioning Group The new health centre in Altrincham – an integration of health, social and community space – has already been recognised as a step-change in the approach to NHS primary health care. The new building sits within a complex urban site …

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Urban Environment House, Helsinki

Urban Environment House, Helsinki by Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects The Urban Environment House is a building designed by Lahdelma & Mahlamäki architects for the Urban Environment Division responsible for, e.g., city planning, building supervision, and environmental services in the City of Helsinki, Finland. It is the winner of the Tekla BIM Award 2020 for Finland and …

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Oldham Town Hall

Oldham Town Hall by BDP for Oldham Council The development ensures certain architectural features and decorations are retained while allowing the building to have a new use. The existing ballroom, council chamber, committee rooms and court rooms have been kept and transformed into cinema screens, while a new extension, a translucent glass light-box, creates a new façade …

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Harris Academy, Sutton

Harris Academy, Sutton by Architype for London Borough Sutton The pioneering Harris Academy Sutton is the UK’s first Passivhaus secondary school and the largest Passivhaus school in the UK. The new building forms the cornerstone of the London Cancer Hub, featuring world-class research and treatment facilities. The school has a special focus on the science …

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Everyman Theatre, Liverpool

Everyman Theatre, Liverpool by Haworth Tompkins The challenge for the new Everyman Theatre was to replace and re-present an iconic Liverpool institution at the centre of the city’s cultural and political life. The theatre began life in a nineteenth century chapel and was converted in the 1970s, becoming a centre of theatrical and political energy …

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