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Prior to Greater Manchester's creation as a ceremonial county in 1974, the first tall building boom in Manchester and Salford occurred in the 1960s and 1970s, with notable buildings including the 118 m (387 ft) tall CIS Tower, which became the tallest building in the United Kingdom when constructed in 1962, [3] and the 107 m (351 ft) tall City ...
DoubleTree by Hilton Manchester Downtown Hotel 148 ft (45 m) 12 1983 Hotel and residential building 8 Carpenter Center 148 ft (45 m) 12 1923 Once the biggest hotel in Manchester. 9 Citizens Bank Building 131 ft (40 m) 10 1913 Known throughout 20th century as the Amoskeag Bank, it was referred to as the city's first "skyscraper". 10
The Shard is the tallest building in the UK.. As of January 2025, there are 177 habitable buildings (used for living and working in, as opposed to masts and religious use) in the United Kingdom at least 100 metres (330 ft) tall, [1] 132 of them in London, 25 in Greater Manchester, eight in Birmingham, four in Leeds, two each in Liverpool and Woking, and one each in Brighton and Hove ...
Manchester: Office 3: Wall Street Tower Apartments [3] 223 ft (68 m) 18: 1985: Manchester: ... Timeline of tallest buildings. 1819-1894: New Hampshire State House
The first phase comprises a 40-storey residential skyscraper; the second phase proposals, if approved, will include a 76-storey skyscraper and 23-storey building. At 139 metres (456 ft), the first phase Viadux Building B2 is the 10th-tallest in Greater Manchester, as of 2025.
At a height of 169 m (554 ft), it was described by the Financial Times as "the UK's first proper skyscraper outside London". [11] From 2006 to 2018, the skyscraper was the tallest building in Manchester and outside London in the United Kingdom. In November 2018, it was surpassed by the South Tower at Deansgate Square, which is 201 m (659 ft) tall.
The Blade is a 154 m (505 ft) tall, 51-storey residential skyscraper in Manchester, England.The building is part of the second phase of the Crown Street development area at the southern end of Deansgate in the city centre, behind the Deansgate Square skyscraper cluster. [2]
The 110 m (359 ft), 32-storey Tower 1 is the tallest element, with Towers 2 and 3 having 16 and 10 storeys respectively. The buildings were designed by 5plus Architects [4] and Tower 1 is the 19th-tallest building in Greater Manchester as of January 2025.