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Student Castle - Great Marlborough Street
 The Student Castle, on the corner of New Wakefield Street and Great Marlborough Street, is a £45M, 33-storey student residence building. At 109 metres it is (as of 2013) the second tallest residential building in Manchester's city centre.   It was designed by the
architectural practice of Hodder + Partners.
Their website says of the building that, "At
street level, a sculptural ‘podium’ element
resolves the acute corner between New Wakefield
Street and the adjoining Great Marlborough Street,
approximating the cornice height of the
surrounding buildings and providing continuity to
the street wall. ....
 ... Above the podium sit a cluster of four ‘towers’, staggered in height, which relate to the city-wide context. The SE tower relates to the height of some of the nearby recent developments including the ‘Green Building’ on Great Marlborough Street (Terry Farrell) and a hotel development (Stephenson Bell) currently on site on the opposite side of the urban block. The SW tower relates to the height of the Waterhouse’s Refuge Building’s tower on Oxford Road. Above this, the NE and NW towers seek to have a presence at a wider city-scale, presenting a particularly slender profile as viewed from the city centre."  ********************** The construction phase         ****************** April 2012    |