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Manchester Civil Justice Centre

in Architecture by Denton Corker Marshall

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World Architecture Festival , 21 May 2009

In 2002, Her Majesty’s Courts Service held an international competition to select an architect to design a new purpose built premises for the Department of Justice in the North West, the biggest...

Abito

in Architecture by BDP

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World Architecture Festival , 10 June 2009

The Greengate site forms part of a wider master plan and presented a number of constraints in that it was triangular. Corner options were appraised but these paralysed much of the site and this led...

Manchester Civil Justice Centre

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DeConstrumatica, 14 September 2008

The Manchester Civil Justice Centre houses 47 courtrooms, 75 consultation rooms, in addition to office and support space over 15 levels. Shortlisted project in the World Architecture...

Imperial War Museum North

in Architecture by Studio Daniel Libeskind

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miesvanderrohe, 29 July 2009

The museum's programme deals with the ravages and implications of war and the concept for the project is that of a globe shattered into fragments and reassembled on the site as an emblem of world...

Chips

in Architecture by Alsop Architects (

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arquinetwork, 29 May 2009

From Alsop Architects Standing at the centre of Manchester’s almost empty New Islington site, Alsop Architects’ Chips carries a great weight of expectation, writes Rowan Moore. The site for...