Media City, Salford Quays, Salford
2007
The site of the Media City development in Salford Quays is huge and will include three BBC office blocks, other speculative offices, a hotel, residential blocks, a 2000 space multi-storey car park and a large new public square.
The building with the largest footprint - 12500m²- and at the centre of the project, is a large steel-framed studio building with two conjoined towers, one a 16-storey hotel and the other a 19-storey office development. A major part in the decision to construct the towers in steel was the need to maximise floor to ceiling heights, which led to the Corus slimdek system being used.
The Slimdek system offered:
- flexibility. simplifying the connectins between the studio and the two towers
- aesthetic appear, the full height glazing allowed the underside of the floor to be viewed from outside
- minimum floor depth
Fact file
Client
Peel Holdings
Architect
Fairhurst Design Group
Management Contractor
Bovis Lend Lease
Structural Engineer
Jacobs
Steelwork Contractor
William Hare
