Peels Mercury Point Aims At Trafford Expansion

Peels Mercury Point Aims At Trafford Expansion

Published on 14-10-2009 by Skyscrapernews.com
As part of Peel's plans to expand their sprawling Trafford Centre in Manchester with an ever increasing amount of office space, Chapman Taylor has designed these two near identical office buildings to stand nearby.

Overlooking Mercury Way and Barton Dock Road, the buildings feature ground floor plus eight office levels with a plant floor topping each. Within the project will offer 27,870 square metres of grade A office space, more or less evenly split between each of the two buildings.

The designs are essentially simple and unornamented office blocks that looked like they escaped from the Modernist school. Each of the buildings are effectively arranged in the form of two slabs laying on their side with the sections towards the middle of the site set back from the road creating a sense of depth at ground level that opens the interior of the site up with a large landscaped space situated between them.

Largely clad in glass curtain walls between the extruding floor of each level, the visible columns run up the corners. The glass look is only broken on the service areas between each of the slabs with some vertical strips of stone cladding.

At ground level there is the impression of double height receptions with mezzanine levels set behind the corner columns whilst metallic panels clad the top of the buildings and house the plant machinery.

The scheme is currently at an outline stage in the planning process meaning that it could well change when a detailed planning application goes in giving some variety to the buildings, but don't expect anything too exciting - that's not the style of Peel Holdings.

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