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Tallest Buildings Of Manchester
This list of the tallest buildings and structures in Greater Manchester ranks buildings in Greater Manchester, England, by height. Greater Manchester is the second-most populated metropolitan area in the United Kingdom and the largest in Northern England, with a population of over 2.5 million. Greater Manchester's tall buildings are primarily located in the City of Manchester and Salford, who border each other along the River Irwell. Since the late 2010s, Manchester's skyline has been undergoing a major high-rise boom, going from having only three buildings above in 2017 to 26 towers as of June 2025; a further six towers above 100 m are under construction. This is the largest number of high-rises in any metropolitan area in the United Kingdom besides London. The tallest building in Manchester is the South Tower of Deansgate Square, which was built in 2020 to a height of 201 m (656 ft). It is the tallest building in the United Kingdom outside of London. History and futu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester is a ceremonial county in North West England. It borders Lancashire to the north, Derbyshire and West Yorkshire to the east, Cheshire to the south, and Merseyside to the west. Its largest settlement is the city of Manchester. The county has an area of and is highly urbanised, with a population of 2.9 million. The majority of the county's settlements are part of the Greater Manchester Built-up Area, which extends into Cheshire and Merseyside and is the List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, second most populous urban area in the UK. The city of Manchester is the largest settlement. Other large settlements are Altrincham, Bolton, Rochdale, Sale, Greater Manchester, Sale, Salford, Stockport and Wigan. Greater Manchester contains ten metropolitan boroughs: Manchester, City of Salford, Salford, Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Bolton, Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Bury, Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Oldham, Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Rochdale, Metropol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ceremonial County
Ceremonial counties, formally known as ''counties for the purposes of the lieutenancies'', are areas of England to which lord-lieutenant, lord-lieutenants are appointed. A lord-lieutenant is the Monarchy of the United Kingdom, monarch's representative in an area. Shrieval counties have the same boundaries and serve a similar purpose, being the areas to which High sheriff#England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, high sheriffs are appointed. High sheriffs are the monarch's judicial representative in an area. The ceremonial counties are defined in the Lieutenancies Act 1997, and the shrieval counties in the Sheriffs Act 1887. Both are defined as groups of Local government in England, counties used for local government. History The historic counties of England were originally used as areas for administering justice and organising the militia, overseen by a High sheriff, sheriff. From Tudor period, Tudor times onwards a lord-lieutenant was appointed to oversee the militia, taki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trinity Islands, Manchester
Trinity Islands is a residential skyscraper cluster under construction in Manchester, England, consisting of four towers between 39 and 60 storeys split over two sites: Building D1 at , Building D2 at , Building C2 at and Building C1 at . The project was designed by SimpsonHaugh and comprises 1,950 apartments, with a total build cost of £535 million. When completed in 2025, Building D2, renamed Vista River Gardens, will become the joint second-tallest building in Greater Manchester alongside Beetham Tower. History Original proposal The project began when the original developer Allied London proposed five towers on the site, with the tallest – at 67 storeys – reaching a height of . If built, this tower would have overtaken Deansgate Square South Tower to be the tallest building in Greater Manchester, as well as the tallest building in the United Kingdom outside London. The scheme would have delivered around 1,390 homes, costing approximately £1.3 billion. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cortland At Colliers Yard
Cortland at Colliers Yard is a 153 m (500 ft) tall, 50-storey residential skyscraper in the Greengate area of Salford, Greater Manchester, England. The building is part of developer Renaker's Greengate masterplan called Colliers Yard, which consists of three adjacent towers, the others being Bankside and Parkside. It was designed by OMI Architects with Denton Corker Marshall as the delivery architects. As of March 2025, it is the tallest building in Salford and the eighth-tallest building in Greater Manchester. History Planning The planning application was submitted to Salford City Council in November 2019, with planning approval obtained in March 2020. Construction Construction of Cortland at Colliers Yard commenced in 2020 and the building was completed in 2023. The tower contains 559 build-to-rent apartments. Sale to Cortland In December 2021, the American real estate investment, development, and management company Cortland, together with Madison Internation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
100 Greengate
100 Greengate (known as Anaconda Cut) (during development known as Exchange Court) is a residential skyscraper in Salford, Greater Manchester, England, with a height of . As of March 2025, it is the second-tallest building in Salford after the tall Cortland at Colliers Yard and the 12th-tallest building in Greater Manchester. It was designed by OMI Architects and is part of a major redevelopment of the Greengate area. The 44-storey tower includes a lower elevation clad with aluminium panels reaching 16 storeys. The main tower is covered with reflective metal panels set behind the glass. The site is bounded by Trinity Way to the north, and Greengate to the south. History Construction of the building started in May 2016 and it was topped out In building construction, topping out (sometimes referred to as topping off) is a builders' rite traditionally held when the last beam (or its equivalent) is placed at the top of a structure during its construction. Nowadays, the cere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viadux
Viadux is a mixed-use skyscraper complex under construction in the Castlefield area of Manchester, England. The first phase comprises a 40-storey residential tower that was completed in 2024. The second phase, approved in May 2025, includes the 76-storey, Nobu Manchester which will contain flats and a 160-bed hotel, as well as a 23-storey residential building. At , the first phase Viadux Building B2 is the List of tallest buildings and structures in Greater Manchester, 11th-tallest in Greater Manchester, as of June 2025. It was designed by SimpsonHaugh, who also designed the adjacent Beetham Tower, Manchester, Beetham Tower, which was completed in 2006. History Planning A planning application for a 40-storey residential building, 14-storey office building, together with ground floor commercial space, was submitted to Manchester City Council in April 2017, with approval obtained in July 2017. A number of planning condition variations and non material amendments for the developm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ordsall, Greater Manchester
Ordsall is an inner city suburb of City of Salford, Salford, Greater Manchester, England. The population at the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 census was 14,194. It lies chiefly to the south of the A57 road, close to the River Irwell, the main boundary with the city of Manchester, Salford Quays and Manchester Ship Canal, which divides it from Stretford. Historic counties of England, Historically part of Lancashire, Ordsall was the birthplace of the Roller chain, bush roller chain and is home to Ordsall Hall. History The name Ordsall has Old English origins, being the personal name ''Ord'' and the word ''halh'', meaning a corner or nook, which has become the modern dialect word "haugh". This, indeed, describes the position of the manor of Ordsall, for its boundary on the south side is a large bend in the River Irwell, which became the site of the docks for the Manchester Ship Canal. Ordsall first appears in records in 1177 when Ordeshala paid two marks towards an aid, a feuda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
X1 Media City
X1 Media City is a residential development in Salford Quays, Greater Manchester, England. When fully built, the scheme will comprise four identical 85 m (277 ft) tall, 26-storey high-rise towers, each containing 275 apartments (1,100 in total). Towers 1 and 2 have been constructed, completing in 2017 and 2019 respectively. As of June 2023, Tower 3 was nearing completion and Tower 4 is yet to start. The towers were originally designed by architects AHR, with Falconer Chester Hall being brought on as designers following planning consent. As of 2025, Towers 1 and 2 are the joint 10th-tallest buildings in Salford. History Planning The original planning application for four 26-storey buildings comprising 1,036 apartments was submitted to Salford City Council in October 2006, with a further application submitted in April 2010 to extend the time to implement the original planning permission. In May 2015, an amendment application was submitted to increase the number of apart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eda (building)
Eda (short for Erie Dock Apartments and formerly Anchorage Gateway), is a , 29-storey residential skyscraper in Salford Quays, Greater Manchester, England. It was designed by Chapman Taylor, with Jon Matthews Architects as the delivery architect. As of March 2025, it is the sixth-tallest building in Salford and the 25th-tallest building in Greater Manchester. History Planning The developer Cole Waterhouse purchased the site from COIF Charities Property Fund in August 2019. It was previously home to The Anchorage, a four-storey 1990s office building that had been occupied by Barclays. In April 2019, an outline planning application was submitted to Salford City Council for the demolition of the office building and a residential development of up to 31-storeys and 290 apartments, with up to of non-residential floorspace. Planning approval was obtained in November 2019. In March 2020, a reserved matters application was submitted to the council for 290 apartments with up to of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salford Quays
Salford Quays is an area of Salford, Greater Manchester, England, near the end of the Manchester Ship Canal. Previously the site of Manchester Docks, it faces Trafford across the canal. History Built by the Manchester Ship Canal Company, Salford Docks was the larger of two that made up Manchester Docks, the other being Pomona Docks to the east, which opened in 1903. They were opened in 1894 by Queen Victoria and spanned of water and of land. At their height, the Manchester Docks was the third-busiest port in Britain, but after containerisation and the limit placed on vessel size on the Manchester Ship Canal, the docks declined in the 1970s. They closed in 1982, resulting in the loss of 3,000 jobs. In 1983, Salford City Council acquired parts of the docks covering from the Manchester Ship Canal Company with the aid of a derelict land grant. The area was rebranded as Salford Quays and redevelopment by Urban Waterside began in 1985 under the Salford Quays Development Plan. Fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MediaCityUK
MediaCityUK is a mixed-use property development on the banks of the Manchester Ship Canal in City of Salford, Salford, Greater Manchester, England. The project was developed by The Peel Group, Peel Media; its principal tenants are Mass media, media organisations and the Quayside MediaCityUK shopping centre. The land occupied by the development was part of the Port of Manchester and Manchester docks. The BBC signalled its intention to move jobs to Manchester in 2004, and the Salford Quays site was chosen in 2006. The Peel Group was granted planning permission to develop the site in 2007, and construction of the development, with its own energy generation plant and communications network, began the same year. Based in Quay House, the principal tenant is the BBC, whose move marks a large-scale decentralisation from London. ITV Granada completed the first phase of its move to MediaCityUK on 25 March 2013, followed in two stages by the northern arm of ITV Studios: the second stage i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salford Cathedral
The Cathedral Church of St. John the Evangelist, usually known as Salford Cathedral, is a Catholic cathedral on Chapel Street in Salford, Greater Manchester, England. It is the seat of the Bishop of Salford and mother church of the Diocese of Salford, and is a Grade II* listed building. History St. John's Church, Salford, was built between 1844 and 1848 to designs of Matthew Ellison Hadfield (1812–1885) of Weightman and Hadfield of Sheffield, by Benjamin Hollins of Manchester. Hadfield's design for St. John's, the first cruciform Catholic church to be built in England since the Reformation, was closely modelled on a number of noted medieval churches. The "west" (actually south) front and nave are copied on a reduced scale from Howden Minster in the East Riding of Yorkshire; the choir and sanctuary are closely modelled on those of Selby Abbey in North Yorkshire; the decorations of the groined vault are copied from the church of St Jacques in Liège, Belgium; the tower and sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
