100 King Street, formerly the Midland Bank, is a former bank premises on

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, England. It was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens in 1928 and constructed in 1933–35. It is Lutyens' major work in Manchester and was designated a Grade II* listed building in 1974.

Architecture

A castle-like

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building, surrounded by roads on all four sides, the architects for the former bank were Lutyens in collaboration with Whinney, Son & Austen Hall and it was built between 1933 and 1935 by J. Gerrard & Sons of Swinton and features carvings by the local sculptor John Ashton Floyd. It is constructed of

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around a steel frame. Its neoclassical design is unusual for Manchester, the style perhaps more suited to the

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, as most of Manchester's buildings were Neogothic. "The proportions are ingeniously calculated, as Lutyens ... adored to do. The top stage is two-thirds of the stage from the obelisks to the next set-back, and that middle stage is two-thirds of the bottom stage."Hartwell ''Lancashire; Manchester and the South-East''; p. 317 It is sometimes known as ''The King of King Street'' because of its distinct structure and height. From 1912, Lutyens laid out

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as the new capital of India. He devised his own Delhi Order of

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there, with small bells hanging from the

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s of the columns, and subsequently made use of this order in his design for the bank.

History

The bank was renamed

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after

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acquired the Midland Bank in the 1990s. It closed on 6 June 2008 when HSBC relocated to St Ann's Square. The building was subsequently refurbished to provide office space and was placed on the office rental market in March 2010.

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opened a restaurant in the former banking hall in 2011. A plan to convert the upper floors of the building into a boutique hotel was announced in 2013. In April 2015, the Hotel Gotham opened on the upper floors of the building.

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