MediaCityUK is the most significant media development that the UK has seen in decades, becoming home to the BBC and ITV, as well as the University of Salford’s Media Faculty, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, and over 200 creative, digital and tech support SMEs. The project incorporates 380 apartments, a 200-key hotel, speculative office buildings, a site-wide tri-generation energy centre, retail and catering outlets and a multi-storey car park. Chapman Taylor acted as lead architect for phase one of this £500m project. MediaCityUK is the world’s first BREEAM Sustainable Community, integrating pioneering sustainable design across the entire site. It won the Regeneration Project of the Year award at the MIPIM UK Awards, 2015. Chapman Taylor is continuing to work with Peel Media and L&G Capital as the masterplanner for phase two of mediaCityUK, and on building designs which include 1,800 further residential units and office buildings. Our role on phase two includes the development of the overall masterplan and individual plot briefs, coordinating the work of six other architects on ten plots and also designing three of the buildings, including a 470 unit build-to-rent apartment building with ground floor restaurants surrounding a landscaped court, an 11,000m² BCO ‘Grade A’ office building, and a 1,050 space multi-storey car park, with office, live/work space, energy centre and an LED ‘media wall’.The £1 billion, 211,000m², second phase gained planning consent in September 2016 and triggered the start of the next step on the journey of establishing MediaCityUK into a sustainable mixed-use community.