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Airport City Hotel

Manchester

Project Details

£250,000 to £499,999

New Build

Practice

Leach Rhodes Walker

50 Dearmans Place , MANCHESTER , M3 5LH

The first hotel to be built in the North of Airport City’s development and is a primary element of the masterplan. New mixed use development consisting of 460 apartments, approx 85,000 sq ft of retail and 453 space car park. The hotel is the first building in Airport City North Development and is a primary element of the master plan for the development. The 350 bed hotel is seven stories high with stone cladding to the bedroom blocks and extensively glazed public areas below. It has been designed as two radiating blocks, to avoid overlooking, which come together above the main entrance facing the transport interchange. The principal vertical circulation zone with the lift and stair core is expressed as a glazed shaft above the main entrance forming a dynamic composition. The hotel is serviced from the car park side of the building allowing an extensive external seating and circulation area to be created to the south and west adjacent to and allowing spill out from, the bar and restaurant.