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by Tom Bloxham MBE, Jonathan Falkingham, and Nick Johnson.
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When Tom met Jonnie Work talks A space, called home Places matter From old to new Royal William Yard, Plymouth Lister Mills, Bradford Chimney Pot Park, Salford Fort Dunlop, Birmingham MoHo, Manchester The Matchworks, Liverpool Midland Hotel, Morecambe Budenburg HAUS Projekte 2&3, Altrincham Rotunda, Birmingham 3Towers, Manchester Chips, New Islington, Manchester Park Hill, Sheffield Lakeshore, Bristol Saxton, Leeds Longlands, Stalybridge
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Conclusion 159 Projects 160 The final word 164 Acknowledgements 166
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Longlands Stalybridge Apartments / Office / Retail / Leisure 1.9 ha / 103 homes / 10,643 sq ft commercial 1805: The Mill 2007: The Mill / 2011: Pattern House Space Craft North West Development Agency Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council
The oldest surviving cotton mill in the area, Castle Street Mill was built in 1805. It was a boom time for Manchester’s textile industry and there were already eight mills in Stalybridge. Founder George Cheetham struck while the cotton was high, adding to his four-storey building with new spinning blocks in the 1820s. But in 1896, the Boulton & Watt engines fell silent for the first time in decades, and it was another ten years before the Longlands Mill Company stepped in and revived the place. Longlands was a working mill until 1961, when the production of rayon put lots of cotton manufacturers out of business. The place saw the birth, growth and death of an industry. It’s a beautiful building, full of the echoes of life and work. We like to think that George Cheetham would be happy to know that we’ve found a new life for his mill, safeguarding its future.
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Tom ‘We wanted to pick up where the cotton industry left off, bringing this once thriving mill back to life. We love restoring old buildings but we’re just as fascinated by new ones (which we hope one day will also become listed!). Here we want people to see the contrast between the old of The Mill, and the new of Pattern House.’ We liked the approach of the designers, Space Craft, not just to buildings but to whole areas. They looked to create new public spaces, gardens, new routes around and through the development, new shops, new restaurants – all introduced with empathy for the long-established surroundings of The Mill. Pattern House has a steel frame which is modular, but within there is a series of apartments that fit together a bit like the 1980s video game Tetris. This is expressed on the outside of the building through concrete panels that outline each apartment.
' Pattern House is a striking apartment block to complement the company's refurbishment of the historic Longlands Mill.' Manchester Evening News
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' Pattern House may appear to be a stark contrast to the mill building, but this is only partially true. Much of its design is derived directly from the mill building which previously stood on the site, and its setting.' Space Craft
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Architects and designers Adjaye Associates Alison Brooks Architects Alford Hall Monaghan Morris Arkheion Austin-Smith:Lord BDP Ben Kelly Design David Morley Architects Dalton Maag De Metz Forbes Knight Design Studio DSDHA FAT Feix & Merlin Ferguson Mann Fielden Clegg Bradley Architects Flacq Foster + Partners Future Systems Gareth Hoskins Architects Gillespie Yunnie Architects Glenn Howells Grant Associates Hawkins\Brown Ian Simpson Architects Ice Architects Kinetic Latham Architects Levitate Architecture Make Matthew Heywood Maurice Shapero Architects NORD North Planit Project Orange Querkraft Q2 Reiach and Hall Richard Rogers Partnership Riches Hawley Mikhail Ryder Architecture shedkm SMC Alsop Snook Space Craft Stephenson Bell Studio 3 Studio Egret West Union North Weston Williamson
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Photography and CGI's Adrian Burrows Andy Brown Ben Blackall Bristol Records Office Charlotte Wood Photography Daniel Hopkinson Duerden Collection Hugh Burden Jason Lock Joel Chester Fildes Jonathan Keenan Jonathan Moore Photography Karen Wright Len Grant Luke Unsworth Martin Crombie McCoy Wynne Associates Morley Von Sternberg Nic Gaunt Nick Hufton Paul Groom Peter Bennett Photography Price & Myers Plymouth Naval Base Museum Robert Whitrow Richard Cooper, Photoflex Simon Webb Shaw + Shaw Tim Smith Tom Benn Trevor Burrows Uniform Design Mhairi Smith, Urban Splash Printing Butler, Tanner & Dennis Ltd Publisher RIBA Publishing Š Urban Splash 2011
305 awards for design, architecture, regeneration and enterprise. We would like to thank everybody that has been a part of the Urban Splash story. There are too many of you to name individually but you know who are.
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