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Beetham Tower, Manchester, after official top-out ceremony
Height 171m (561ft)
Built 2004 - 2006
Floors 48
Location Manchester, England
Usage Hotel/Residential
Architect Ian Simpson

Beetham Tower, Manchester is a skyscraper that was completed in 2006 in the English city of Manchester. It is named after the developers, Beetham Organization, and is designed by Ian Simpson. It is currently the tallest building in Manchester. It consists of a Hilton Hotel up to level 23 and apartments from floor 24 upwards. There are also 2 basement levels which contain car parking for the residents of the apartments.

The tower lies on the road Deansgate and has two postal addresses, with the apartments falling under 301 Deansgate and the hotel under 303 Deansgate. Now that the corporate logos of the Hilton group have been attached to the exterior of the plant floor on level 24, the tower is widely referred to as the Hilton Tower by local media and citizens.

Setting

Located along Deansgate, it has 48 floors and is 171 metres (561 feet) in height, making it the tallest building in the UK outside of London and the UK's 7th tallest building. This is now the tallest building in Manchester, overtaking the CIS Tower, which also held the record as the tallest building outside London. The tower is one of the tallest residential towers in Europe, exceeded only by the Triumph-Palace in Moscow (264 m, 866 ft) and the Turning Torso in Malmö (190 m, 624 ft). In comparison, the tallest building in the world is Taipei 101 at 509 metres (1670 ft). The UK's tallest building, One Canada Square, is 235 metres (771 ft) tall.

The tower contains a Hilton Hotel for the first 22-floors, a bar and lounge on the 23rd and apartments up to the 48th floor. The hotel opened and received its first guests on October 9, 2006 and the first apartment residents are expected to move in around January 2007.

The tower had its official "topping-out" ceremony on April 26, 2006.

The architect, Ian Simpson, has bought the top floor penthouse which is the highest living space in Britain. It features a semi internal garden containing 21, 4 metre high olive, lemon and oak trees shipped from Italy and craned into the building before the roof was built. The penthouse covers the top two stories of the building.

The tower offers views of the set of Coronation Street and on a clear day, it is also possible to see the Anglican Cathedral in Liverpool, much of the Cheshire Plain, the Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory, and the mountains of Snowdonia.

Noise problems

During the instalation of the glass and steel blade, an strange noise problem emerged. People reported that the building "whistles" in windy weather. The sound is close to standard musical C; some say it is like a "UFO landing" in sci-fi films. [1] The noise also affected the production of local soap opera, Coronation Street with producers having to create extra background noise as the tower is too far away from the soap's Salford setting to explain away. The noise problem was swiftly corrected and is now not an issue.

Other towers with same name

See also

  • No. 1 Deansgate, another glass residential building down the same road, also designed by Ian Simpson

Construction gallery

  • January 2006.
    January 2006.
  • April 2006
    April 2006

References

  1. ^ "Buildings that whistle in the wind". New Scientist Tech. 4 August 2006. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

External links

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