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Beetham Tower, Manchester - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Beetham Tower, Manchester is a skyscraper completed in 2006 in Manchester, the Second City of the United Kingdom. The tower is one of the tallest residential towers in Europe, exceeded only by the Triumph-Palace in Moscow (264 metres) and the Turning Torso in Malmö (190 metres). Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral from Beetham Tower in Manchester en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beetham_Tower,_Manchester   (490 words)

Observer | Towering ambition of a Liverpool lad on the up Beetham was taken to the south coast because his mother wanted to be closer to the heartland of the sect. Beetham Tower will not be finished for more than a year and he is eager to get a slice of the action at Kings Dock, the waterfront site originally earmarked as the new home for Everton football club. Undoubtedly, Beetham is one of a handful of people who saw Liverpool as a new Jerusalem, despite the city being once described as a mini republic during its war ring days with the Thatcher government - a city that also survived the Nineties 'on probation'. observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4757849-102271,00.html   (1181 words)

Beetham Tower, Holloway Circus, Birmingham - The Concrete Centre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) Beetham Tower at Birmingham's Holloway Circus shows how modern high-rise living can be achieved. The foot-print for Beetham Tower was small and very enclosed, with a car-park, hotel and main road encompassing the site. The first 19 storeys of the tower contain a 220 bedroom hotel; the final 21 floors are made up of apartments, duplexes and penthouses. www.concretecentre.com /main.asp?page=1274   (392 words)

Beetham Tower, Birmingham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Beetham Tower (right) and the Orion Building (left) during the reattaching of the rear panels. Beetham Tower, Birmingham is a 122 metre (400 feet) tall skyscraper completed in 2006 in Birmingham city centre, United Kingdom. The plans for the building were first revealed in 1998 as part of a competition in which designs for a tower acting as a gateway to the city were to be submitted to the council and also for a building that could aid the regeneration plans in and around the area. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beetham_Tower,_Birmingham   (762 words)

Balco best for Beetham Tower   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) Over 1250m2 of Wedi BA Balco is being installed for the apartment balconies at the prestigious 39 floor Beetham Tower at Holloway Circus in the heart of Birmingham city centre. However, the tower`s distinguishing feature is its glass façade with green zebra- stripe patterning (to help reduce the heat of the sun). Beetham Tower is symbolic of the repopulation trend taking place in Birmingham and other city centres throughout the UK. wedi.co.uk /news01.htm   (232 words)

Say hello to Beetham buyers It is understood that Phil and Julie intend to split their time between their sprawling country mansion in the Rossendale Valley and the Tower triplex to cut down on commuting time to training in Liverpool for Phil. He was so desperate to buy into Beetham when it launched he drove to Liverpool to give the developers a cash deposit on the £200,000 unit. Across town at Piccadilly permission has already been granted for a 60 storey hotel/apartments tower and the developer Inacity was expected to announce the name of the hotel chain months ago. www.manchesteronline.co.uk /homes/latest/s/219/219021__say_hello_to_beetham_buyers.html   (1174 words)

20th Century Buildings in Manchester - The Edge, No 1 Deansgate, the NV Building, Beetham Tower and Greenquarter The development will feature a striking, slender glass tower and will be the tallest structure in the city centre at 157 metres high with a glass 'blade' increasing the height of the building to 171 metres. Located at 301 Deansgate in Manchester, the Beetham Tower, is near the G-Mex centre on the corner of Deansgate and Great Bridgewater Street will be composed of the 286-bed Hilton Hotel, office and residential space, underground residents parking, with one floor dedicated to a bar area, the so-called 'Sky Bar'. The tower was officially topped out in July 2006 and is expected to be occupied and fully operational in autumn 2006. www.manchester2002-uk.com /buildings/20th-century3.html   (1054 words)

Beetham Tower lights up the sky   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) Beetham Tower, which dominates the city's skyline, can be seen as far away as Snowdonia in North Wales. The Hilton Hotel is due to open towards the end of July with residential apartments opening in four phases until the end of the year. Mr Simpson said he was looking forward to moving into the tower when it is completed later this year. www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk /men/news/w/211/211700_beetham_tower_lights_up_the_sky.html   (635 words)

albawaba.com middle east news information::Jumeirah Hotel to open at Beetham London On Thursday 21st September, Jumeirah signed an agreement with Beetham Organization to create The Jumeirah Hotel at Beetham Tower, the new £600 million slender curved glass landmark for London, about to be built on London’s South Riverbank at the junction of Blackfriars Bridge and Blackfriars Road, subject to planning permission. The hotel will have a variety of restaurants and bars and a state of the art spa, health and leisure facility that will be located on 26th and 27th floors of the hotel, with stunning views across the capital. The new tower, designed by award-winning Ian Simpson Architects, will also have public facilities, including a new plaza wrapping round the base of the tower with cafes and restaurants and access via an express elevator to a five-storey high public viewing gallery at the top of the tower. www.menareport.com /en/business/203618   (384 words)

UBS low profile hoist tower streamlines Tower: News from Universal Builders Supply The low profile, high speed hoist system commissioned for the construction of Manchester's 171 metre 47 storey Beetham Tower, Manchester is enabling contractors Carillion to dramatically improve efficiency and speed of elevating materials and personnel to height with the minimum of disruption to the construction programme. As only the low profile tower is tied directly into the building, cladding can be applied to the whole building apart from the 4.5 metre opening. Carillion's construction manager Jack Headland commented, 'The biggest benefit of the UBS common tower is that it is such a neat arrangement that even running four hoists, it only requires one set of ties to the building'. www.buildingtalk.com /news/unv/unv100.html   (570 words)

Carillion tops out at Manchester tower At 169 metres high it is the tallest UK structure outside of London and approximately 11 metres taller than Blackpool Tower. This is the third landmark project we have carried out for the Beetham Organization, with a fourth recently commencing in Liverpool. The Beetham Hilton Tower comprises a Hilton Hotel from level 0 to 22, a ‘Sky Bar’ at level 23 and residential apartments from levels 25 to 50. www.carillionplc.com /building/news/NRHiltonToppingOut.htm   (572 words)

Beetham Tower, Manchester The tower, which will also become the tallest building in the UK outside of London, combines residential apartments, office space and a five star hotel. Beetham Organization submitted a planning application to Manchester City Council in July 2003 for 17,186sq m (185,000sq ft) of residential space, a 21,375sq m (230,000sq ft) hotel and 6,506 sq m (70,000sq ft) of office space. The tower will feature a 285-bed, five star hotel to be run by Hilton International, including a destination 'sky bar' on the 23rd floor, which will offer magnificent views across Manchester and beyond to Snowdonia. www.emporis.com /en/wm/bu/?id=190363   (255 words)

BBC - Birmingham - Entertainment - Tallest building in Brum opens (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) Beetham Tower is 122m (400 ft) tall with 39 floors and is currently the tallest residential building outside of London. The 250,000 square foot tower is built is on an area of less than 1/3 acre. I'd rather it be called Beacon Tower as thats what it is for me but i think it looks good and there should be more of these type of structures in the inner city. www.bbc.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /birmingham/content/articles/2006/01/16/radisson_opens_feature.shtml   (1485 words)

Article - 375 - Beetham Propose New London Tower The tower which is set to be 219.3m metres tall above ground level and reach 68 storeys, will contain the traditional Beetham mix of a hotel and on the upper floors 220 flats. The scale of their building, substantially larger than previously built ones around the country, is to try and avoid problems of the towers being unable to fill demand and as the case of Liverpool shows an almost immediate need for a second one to meet it. Beetham hopes that the project will be warmly welcomed and construction work on the project, which is due to set them back £250 million, can in early 2006. www.skyscrapernews.com /news.php?ref=375   (543 words)

BBC NEWS | England | Manchester | City building reaches full height The tower was originally planned to stand at 171m (561ft) tall, but had to be changed because of local wind conditions. The UK's tallest tower is Canada Tower in London's Canary Wharf, at 778ft (237m) tall. He said Beetham was "a marked for regeneration and change" in the city. news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/manchester/4944590.stm   (308 words)

Carillion celebrates Beetham West Tower groundbreaking The inspirational tower is set to be the ‘jewel-in-the-crown’ of Beetham’s Old Hall Street development in the commercial district of Liverpool city centre. The 40-storey tower will be the tallest building in the city and consists of 120 two-bedroom apartments and seven penthouse apartments. The ceremony was attended by the Beetham Organization Ltd, Carillion Building, Aedas AHR, Capital of Culture team, Boodle and Dunthorne, Liverpool City Council, Ethel Austen Investment Properties and Daily Post/Trinity Mirror Group. www.carillionplc.com /building/news/NRWestTowerGroundbreaking.htm   (349 words)

Mary & Gisele - Property Consultants It might have been thought that the success of Beetham Tower on Old Hall Street, Liverpool could not have been rivaled, but Beetham Organization are proud to unveil West Tower. The development comprises 219 luxury residences, 285-bed Hilton Conference Hotel, with a Sky Bar at the 23rd floor, underground parking and 100,000 sq ft of office space and is on schedule for completion in 2006 having already won RIBA Housing Excellence Awards.. Adjacent to the hotel and residential development on Old Hall Street in the corporate centre of Liverpool, Beetham have created a high quality office building which is home to The UK Passport Services and UNISYS, who have between them leased 140,000 sq ft of offices. www.maryandgisele.com   (234 words)

The ABB Group: ABB to deliver the power connections for ‘sky-high’ living at Beetham Tower, Manchester ABB has been awarded the contract to provide a complete high voltage (HV) and low voltage (LV) power connection package for the new 48-storey Beetham Tower in Manchester, which is set to become the UK’s highest living space at a height of 171m. So Beetham Landmark Manchester Ltd has asked ABB to provide a complete turnkey connection package to ensure that power is available to meet a tight project schedule, ensuring that the building can be occupied at the earliest possible opportunity. Designed by award winning Ian Simpson Architects, the development will feature a striking, slender glass tower and will be the tallest structure in the city centre at 157m high with a glass 'blade' increasing the height of the building to 171m. www.abb.com /cawp/seitp202/7e438ec6b959e02d80257076004ee57c.aspx   (343 words)

Welcome to AEI Cables The Mineral Insulated Cables delivery for Beetham Tower in Birmingham city centre was gently lifted and lowered down into position ready for installation. The cables — recognised as the ultimate in fire performance to meet and exceed all requirements of BS 5839-1 (02) — are being used as the main source of emergency power supplies for lift shafts on each floor of the building and for apartments. The Beetham Tower project is a 38 storey mixed-use tower, with the lower 18 floors being a new 220-bed Radisson SAS conference hotel and floors 19-38 being taken up by 158 luxury apartments. www.aeicables.co.uk /cgi-bin/news2.pl?newsId=1   (319 words)

Rethink for Blackfriars Road tower scheme [14 February 2006] Sources close to the project indicated that the operator of the hotel which will occupy a large part of the tower will be revealed within the next month. One way of reducing the density of the lower part of the development would be to move the required element of affordable housing away from the site, a move that Southwark Council and the Mayor of London are likely to back, according to sources. It is understood that the new designs are also intended to improve public realm links between Simpson's tower and neighbouring projects, such as the remodelling of Kings Reach Tower, currently home to IPC Media. www.london-se1.co.uk /news/view/2003   (474 words)

Beetham Tower model at Royal Academy [21 June 2006] (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) The proposed One Blackfriars Road, better known as the Beetham Tower, is best considered at the exhibition where one can look up from the model's ground floor. The controversial 68-storey tower is planned for the corner of Stamford Street and Blackfriars Road. There is also a digital print of the tower seen from under the Millennium Bridge. www.london-se1.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /news/view/2219   (426 words)

BBC - Manchester - Features - A cut above: high rise living is back All but four of the 219 apartments in the 171m Beetham Tower have been sold even though buyers cannot move in for another two years. Once the tower is completed you are likely to get blown away if you walk anywhere close to the tower. Plannning policy today favours 'clusters'of towers such as Canary Wharf and the city of london yet Manchester has decided to string these towers throughout the city centre, creating a disjointed, haphazard skyline. www.bbc.co.uk /manchester/content/articles/2004/11/24/high_rise_living_hys_feature.shtml   (1992 words)

Beetham tower and other construction - Manchester Photo Gallery by Matthew Rees at pbase.com Beetham tower will be Manchesters tallest building at 171m or 561ft. I live in Manchester and have watched the Beetham tower grow from the foundations upwards, I have worked all over the UK and have never seen a modern building that generates so much interest. I have been watching the Birmingham Beetham Tower grow though only taken a few pictures - it is now near completion. www.pbase.com /u03mlr/beetham_tower_construction_   (410 words)

Glasgow Skyscraper, Elphinstone Place, Glasgow Elphinstone Place is a dramatic thirty nine storey tower and seven storey office block proposed to replace the former Strathclyde Regional Council offices at India Street, near St Vincent Street with its church by Alexander Thomson. The single tower design, the height of 30 double decker buses had to pass exhaustive wind tunnel tests, the most stringent ever conducted in Scotland and will make it the tallest building in Scotland. It seems like it's been put together from a mix of the dull Trinity Project and the sexier Beetham Towers which are popping up in every major UK city. www.glasgowarchitecture.co.uk /elphinstone_place.htm   (1227 words)

: Downtown Liverpool : Beetham West Tower Liverpool City Council's planning department have now recommended this scheme and the final decision on planning permission looks set to be made by the planning committee in Jan/Feb 05. In a remarkable U-turn and against the advice of officers, the planning committee made the brave step of granting planning permission and this new, sleek tower is currently on-site. Much better news for Liverpool, and a welcome decision for all the future retailers and service providers in the CBD who should welcome a new raft of downtown residents. www.downtownliverpool.org /architecture/west_tower.htm   (290 words)

Beetham Tower plan praised by CABE but Westminster will object [7 September 2005] The proposed 740ft skyscraper by Blackfriars Bridge has been praised by CABE as a "bold addition to London's skyline", but Westminster City Council is preparing to object to the scheme. CABE expressed concern about the £500 million building’s configuration of family housing, and suggested that there are "weaknesses in the streets and spaces in and around the development", such as the large overhang proposed at the junction of Stamford Street and Blackfriars Road. • A consultation event on the Beetham Tower plans will be held on Friday 16 and Saturday 17 September (Friday 3.30pm-6.30pm; Saturday 9am-12 noon) at the London Nautical School in Stamford Street. www.london-se1.co.uk /news/view/1718   (235 words)

CIS Tower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The CIS Tower is the second tallest building in Manchester, England. Currently the building is undergoing a major facelift as it is to be clad in solar panels which will be able to power over 75 homes. The project is now complete and the tower has since lost its title as the tallest building in Manchester to the Beetham Tower which is 171 m tall. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/CIS_Tower   (210 words)

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