The Exchange - New York Street This white building,
seen here from New York Street, is called The
Exchange. It is one of Bruntwood's offering of
office space in the city centre. They describe it
as "an
ideal office building to transform into contemporary
office space. Consequently," they add, "we
are completely redeveloping the office building, both
internally and externally to create 41,257 sq ft of
brand new offices over five floors in Manchester’s
city centre."
  The building wasn't always called The Exchange. When it was built in 1967 by the Ministry of Public Buildings and Works, it was called Rutherford House and it was a telephone exchange.  Rutherford House sat above a nuclear bunker which housed the Guardian Telephone Exchange. It was built in the 1950s and along with similar structures, in Birmingham and London, it was designed to provide "secure" communications in the event of nuclear war. If you click on the link below, you can see an image of the underground telephone exchange on English Heritage's Viewfinder web site. Close Window |
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