Taking care of business

摘要

The Alliance Business School at the University of Manchester occupies two conjoined buildings from the 1970s: the original business school by Cruickshank & Seward and the Precinct Centre development by Wilson Womersley. The latter devised a master plan, pioneering a streets-in-the-sky concept of pedestrian walkways throughout the university campus, which was never completed. It did, however, provide the key to unlocking the school's growth plan as well as an opportunity to visually reconnect the school to the primary elevation of Oxford Road. The client's key requirement was that the design would provide facilities allowing the school to compete with other leading establishments worldwide.