Skyscrapernews entry:

http://www.skyscrapernews.com/buildings.php?id=4752

Planning app:

http://www.publicaccess.manchester.gov.uk/publicaccess/tdc/dcapplication/application_detailview.aspx?KEYVAL=HFUYW9BCA0000&module=P3&hidereturn=true

'Development of 84 apartments with Class A1 Retail, Class A2 Financial & professional services or Class B1 Offices at ground level and associated parking'

I'll try and get some pics as soon as I can. For those of you unsure of it's whereabouts, it's the one directly behind the 14-storey hotel planned for Great Ancoats Street (see http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=469855)

Taken from themovechannel.com:
http://www.themovechannel.com/property/pimages/24/BP4L11/LImageURL-building_image_cgi.jpg

http://www.skyscrapernews.com/images/pics/4752LaystallHouse_pic1.jpg

A few pics taken today (I was hoping to get more, but my camera batteries ran out again - me and technology don't get on).

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg270/SteKnight/LaystallHouse020308001.jpg?t=1204478005

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg270/SteKnight/LaystallHouse020308003.jpg?t=1204478056

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg270/SteKnight/LaystallHouse020308002.jpg?t=1204478974

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg270/SteKnight/LaystallHouse020308004.jpg?t=1204479062

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg270/SteKnight/LaystallHouse170308.jpg?t=1205770776

stek, well spotted. i didn't realise it was under construction. i just looked at it when cycling by and thought 'ooh, wonder what that will be'.

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg270/SteKnight/LaystallHouse130408001.jpg?t=1208113646

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg270/SteKnight/LaystallHouse130408002.jpg?t=1208113675

Behold the Sarah Tower cranes in the distance!
http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg270/SteKnight/LaystallHouse130408003.jpg?t=1208113712

Skyscrapernews entry:

http://www.skyscrapernews.com/buildings.php?id=4752

Planning app:

http://www.publicaccess.manchester.gov.uk/publicaccess/tdc/dcapplication/application_detailview.aspx?KEYVAL=HFUYW9BCA0000&module=P3&hidereturn=true

'Development of 84 apartments with Class A1 Retail, Class A2 Financial & professional services or Class B1 Offices at ground level and associated parking'

I'll try and get some pics as soon as I can. For those of you unsure of it's whereabouts, it's the one directly behind the 14-storey hotel planned for Great Ancoats Street (see http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=469855)

Taken from themovechannel.com:
http://www.themovechannel.com/property/pimages/24/BP4L11/LImageURL-building_image_cgi.jpg

http://www.skyscrapernews.com/images/pics/4752LaystallHouse_pic1.jpg

WOW! That's fuck-ugly isn't it, I'm almost speechless.

It's rank.

^^ Are they planning to rebuild the White House pub?! :jk:

Anyway, the fab hotel with the red/blue glass facade will hide this nicely anyway! :)

WOW! That's fuck-ugly isn't it, I'm almost speechless.

It's rank.

I know - it's got a face only a mother could love.

It looks like some giant nuclear bunker at the moment, with the amount of concrete they're using. As Chogs says, I'm looking foward to the new hotel obliterating the view of it from the main road.

The concrete frame is about as attractive as this building is going to get.

This will last no more than 20 years before it's ripped down and replaced! It's just breathtakingly awful!!!!

it's undoubtably one of the cheapest computer renderings i've ever seen (so what). after much thought i now think the design isn't that bad. the tower portion where there is a huge brick wall will be covered from view i think by the new hotel.

unless i'm mistaken (fairly sure i'm not)...

http://www.skyscrapernews.com/images/pics/5313GreatAncoatsStreet_pic2.jpg

becomes:

http://www.skyscrapernews.com/images/pics/5313GreatAncoatsStreet_pic1.jpg

26/04
http://www.skyscrapernews.com/images/pics/4752LaystallHouse_pic4.jpg

http://www.skyscrapernews.com/images/pics/4752LaystallHouse_pic2.jpg

it's undoubtably one of the cheapest computer renderings i've ever seen (so what). after much thought i now think the design isn't that bad. the tower portion where there is a huge brick wall will be covered from view i think by the new hotel.

unless i'm mistaken (fairly sure i'm not)...

http://www.skyscrapernews.com/images/pics/5313GreatAncoatsStreet_pic2.jpg

becomes:

http://www.skyscrapernews.com/images/pics/5313GreatAncoatsStreet_pic1.jpg

Admittedly it might not be too bad if that end wall is covered. I didn't know a hotel was proposed next to it, quirky design or what?

Any word on the hotel at the moment?

I keep forgetting what this development is when seeing which threads have new posts.. and then I fall for looking again :( It is a shit build, looks like something firefighters would practice tackling fires in..

I know it really is bad

this thing is hideous,i thought red brick went out when the nazis bombed us in ww2.

http://www.skyscrapernews.com/images/pics/4752LaystallHouse_pic5.jpg

2 pics from today from great ancoats street:

http://www.nickgrayson.net/ssc/2008_05_27/laystall%20street%20apartments%20construction/SP_A0174%20copy.jpg

http://www.nickgrayson.net/ssc/2008_05_27/laystall%20street%20apartments%20construction/SP_A0175%20copy.jpg

lots of red brick already I see on the lower level, no fancy time consuming cladding job for this one, no. God help us when its completely covered in it. There needs to be some seriously mature trees planted all around this and every tenant/owner encouraged to have some plants flowers whatever on the outside of their apartments just to cover this mess up a bit.





http://www.skyscrapernews.com/images/pics/4752LaystallHouse_pic1.jpg

It reminds me of some 70s council flats that might have sprung up in Gorton or somewhere.

would one of these do it? ;)
http://www.skyscrapernews.com/images/pics/5313GreatAncoatsStreet_pic1.jpg

it goes some way to hiding it but the front of the building is no more appealing than the side

In fairness, the bricks in the photo above don't appear to be as garishly pink as those in the render. Still, a LOT of bricks!!

today.

http://www.skyscrapernews.com/images/pics/4752LaystallHouse_pic6.jpg

http://www.skyscrapernews.com/images/pics/4752LaystallHouse_pic7.jpg

http://www.skyscrapernews.com/images/pics/4752LaystallHouse_pic8.jpg

The brick is nice.

This is one of the most unfairly maligned buildings on here, it interacts with the street well (obviously excluding the side facing great ancoats street, but I'm banking on the hotel going there), has similar brick to nearby buildings and is reasonably tall. I'd much prefer something like this than ILVA with its fuck off concrete wall facing the street.

..

From Sunday

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y88/faggotbrain/layedit.jpg

nice pic and good to see you back, smoking orphan

Assuming the building next door is staying (looks like the front might be listed?) then bricks will look better next to it. The windows are bloody awful though. :(

http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k103/samorost/UELS/LaystallSt.jpg

And some from inside..

http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k103/samorost/UELS/LS3.jpg http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k103/samorost/UELS/LS2.jpg

http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k103/samorost/UELS/LS1.jpg

http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u180/markydeedroppics/City%20Centre%202008/066-3.jpg

http://www.skyscrapernews.com/images/pics/4752LaystallHouse_pic9.jpg

Hmmm..
http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg270/SteKnight/LaystallHouse221008001.jpg?t=1224792923

thanks for these :)

Hmmm..
http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg270/SteKnight/LaystallHouse221008001.jpg?t=1224792923

good grief, it's worse than I thought, if there was an icon for a steaming pile of shit I'd insert it but instead I'll just have to use this :bash: and this :ohno:

I actually think it looks better than promised. I'm willing to give it a chance - and this is from someone who hates red brick.

better? no way, it's fuck ugly and looks much worse than I first anticipated, the window spaces don't even look square to me, truly dreadful longy

Nah - the render had bright orange bricks with a bright white mortar. In reality both brick stock and mortar are a much much subtle affair.
I like the fenestration pattern and once again the reveals appear much stronger than the render would have us believe - i even quite like the tower aspect - it reminds me a bit of an inter war town hall or bus garage or Aytoun Street dole office or something (thats no bad thing by the way).
I'm going to stick my neck out say that i actually like it so far.
A pleasant surprise from the render.

the window spaces don't even look square to me

Yeah, that's probably my photo-taking skills at work.

Reminds me of a fire station, plus training tower.

Which isn't a good thing.

it reminds me a bit of an inter war town hall or bus garage or Aytoun Street dole office or something (thats no bad thing by the way).

A bus garage or Aytoun St dole office, you're spot on thats exactly what it looks like [thats no good thing by the way]. :)

I don't understand why there is such hatred for this building. The side facing onto Great Ancoats Street is a bit gash but eventually something else will get built there.

If all the roads leading from the northern quarter/piccadilly to Great Ancoats Street had similar builds (and there is a lot of wasteland particularly around the newton street/port street area), boring as they may be, it would connect the centre to East Manchester really well, adding a nice bit of bulk.

Alot of people like the Ilva building but this is, to me, is better. It doesn't include another bloody car park nor is it an angle to great ancoats street nor does it slap a massive concrete barricade against a side road (laystall street?) which is one of the walking routes to and from town.

Its just a boring safe red brick building that nicely fills a gap, and Manchester could do with a few more of these.

Just been playing with my new camera over dinner, and this is right behind where I work, so thought i'd do a quick update...

http://i389.photobucket.com/albums/oo332/phphotography/LaystallHouse041208-02.jpg

http://i389.photobucket.com/albums/oo332/phphotography/LaystallHouse041208-01.jpg

cheers for pics!

i don't really get time to go over there these days

http://i621.photobucket.com/albums/tt298/islandmonster/P02-03-09_134601.jpg

Went past this today, still looks like there finishing it off.

http://i319.photobucket.com/albums/mm469/carlf18/007.jpg

sunday

http://www.skyscrapernews.com/images/pics/4752LaystallHouse_pic11.jpg

http://www.skyscrapernews.com/images/pics/4752LaystallHouse_pic12.jpg

http://www.skyscrapernews.com/images/pics/4752LaystallHouse_pic15.jpg

This is actually pretty decent filler. The hotel needs to be built on the brick wall side though to complete it.

aye, i've always maintained this is fine. Not everything needs to be flashy. ILVA has fucked up the area though, I'd rather see the entire plot demolished than taken by another retailer.

I originally hated the renders of this but in reality its not a bad little building

i wasn't as sceptical as others when i saw the renders but now i'm not sure if i can stand it. the design seems messy to me with the top floors of the tower in particular. i think the building looks very cheap indeed when seen in the flesh and the kind of budget the exterior is built to reminds me of much shorter apartment buildings, i don't think this is an example of 'tall buildings should be of higher quality', if anything i'd say the tower is worse than shorter apartment blocks. i'd not like to imagine what ancoats would look like with more than one of these.

What he's trying to say is it's complete and utter shit, just as I imagined it would be.

the planning app was received over 6 years ago, before ancoats really took off. i can imagine that the council were perhaps eager to get anyone building in the area back then.

I'm not sure that's a good enough excuse, anyway we're stuck with it now :(

This finished now? or is it still an empty block?

This finished now? or is it still an empty block?

It still looks empty. We photographed it on Monday ready for listing on our site, but we can't find out any details about who's selling it or who it belongs to.

We bow to the superior knowledge of Skyscrapercity posters! :master::master::master:

Does anyone know? Email us here...

http://www.luvthecity.com/OurBlog.aspx

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I think it was supposed to be for a 3* hotel. Maybe they built it speculatively and never signed an operator.

No Macc the hotel was suppose to be fronting onto Gt Ancoats St next to this , thats why its just a blank brick wall at that end od the development

Empty and ready for demolition.

The photo's on here don't do justice to how monumentally bad it looks when you come down Old Mill Street from the other side of the ring road.

Having said that, the shopping centre opposite doesn't do it any favours.

I think it looks quite nice, the original renders were awfull though.

My main problem is the surrounding area looks terrible and tatty, that road it's full of nasty takeaways and 2-3 prostitute houses.

Same goes with Skyline, nice block of apartments that's surrounded by rubble and shite.

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg270/SteKnight/LaystallHouse121209.jpg?t=1260632503

I think it was supposed to be for a 3* hotel. Maybe they built it speculatively and never signed an operator.

http://www.staymanchester.com/index.php

Now open.

Went past this the other day, lights were on and people have clearly moved in. They must have completed this while no one was watching.

^^aaaaaages ago! This flew up. It's actually not bad. Just needs a nice tall hotel to be built against that brick wall fronting Great Ancoats Street

^^aaaaaages ago! This flew up. It's actually not bad. Just needs a nice tall hotel to be built against that brick wall fronting Great Ancoats Street

It was empty for ages with signs they stopped all work.

I actually stayed in the aparthotel there last year with a bunch of mates on a night out. Got it on a special reduced deal on LateRooms. Gotta say, well worth the money. Was an amazing night.

Looking a little sorry for its self in this damp weather. Really needs the plot infront to have something built on it to cover up that horrible wall.http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v404/andysimo123/photo-10.jpg