Chips

摘要

Chips is a large new building for Urban Splash, part of the regeneration of East Manchester. It was designed by SMC Alsop and Martin Stockley Associates, and built by Urban Splash Build. Its nine storeys contain 142 apartments over commercial space at ground level, with a basement containing car parking and plant under the whole building. The site is narrow, with canals on three sides. The frame is of reinforced concrete with exposed flat slabs supported on an irregular column grid, which responds to the offsetting of storeys in the long elevations.