Stirling Prize 2024 — Goldsmith Street (already captured); use: Timber Wharf, Manchester

Manchester, United Kingdom, Europe

Completed · Residential · Adaptive Reuse Residential · Temperate · 2003

Conversion of a Victorian warehouse into 75 loft apartments retaining the original heavy-timber beam-and-post structure as an exposed feature, pioneering the industrial adaptive reuse residential model that has since spread across UK cities.

Innovation highlights

• exposed Victorian timber frame retained structurally and aesthetically
• industrial adaptive reuse model at residential scale
• pioneered open-plan warehouse-to-loft conversion procurement approach in UK
• set the template for Northern Quarter regeneration typology

Client / Developer

Urban Splash

Architect

Shed KM

Engineer

Curtins

Type

Adaptive Reuse Residential

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