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Another roundup of construction updates and new proposals...

Originally Posted by VDB

Union St | New Islington
Apartments | City Zone

Floors: 8, 9 & 10 | No. of apartments: 302 | Developer: Manchester Life

Current Status: Under Construction

Nearest transport: New Islington


Thread: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...#post128675288

Updates by Gshutty:

Originally Posted by VDB

One Spinningfields
Offices | City Zone

Floors: 24 | Office Space: 300,000sqft | Developer: Allied London | Height: 92m

Current Status: Under Construction

Nearest transport: Salford Central


Thread: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...#post122223243

Photos by Stopfordian Dreamer.

The core has now topped out:

Originally Posted by VDB

One Spinningfields
Offices | City Zone

Floors: 24 | Office Space: 300,000sqft | Developer: Allied London | Height: 92m

Current Status: Under Construction

Nearest transport: Salford Central


Thread: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...#post122223243

The core at 1S has topped out:

Look away if you suffer vertigo!

Originally Posted by VDB

The Sky Gardens
Offices | City Zone

Floors: 12 | No. of apartments: 162 | Developer: deTrafford

Current Status: Site Clearance

Nearest transport: Cornbrook


Thread: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...#post131654346

Originally Posted by VDB

The City Gardens
Apartments | City Zone

Floors: 10 | No. of apartments: 86 | Developer: deTrafford

Current Status: Site Clearance

Nearest transport: Cornbrook


Thread: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...#post131654346

Originally Posted by VDB

A comparison montage showing how the western approach into Victoria station has changed over the years.

The 1964 photo shows how Victoria station's platform 3 used to extend all the way into the adjacent Exchange Station (it was possible to walk through into a different station via the same platform). Platform 3 was, for this reason, the world's longest platform until Exchange Station closed in the late 1960s.

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1987:







2008:







2014:







2016:







Now, trains wind their way through Central Salford's tall buildings on their way into Victoria station.

The unused section of track in the centre of the viaduct in the photo below will soon be re-filled with rail tracks as part of the expansion of Salford Central station. Three new platforms are being built alongside the existing station, and further down the viaduct is being altered this weekend to enable the Ordsall Chord to be built - to link trains from Victoria with the city centre's south side train stations at Piccadilly, Deansgate and Oxford Road.

Originally Posted by VDB

Salford Central station expansion
Rail station | Salford

No. of new platforms: 3 | Developer: Network Rail/TfGM | Completion: 2018

Current status: Pre Planning

Nearest station: Salford Central

Thread: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...#post131025006

Renders of the new platforms 3,4 & 5 at Salford Central station:








Platforms 3 & 4 in their current state. They've been closed since the 1990s:

Originally Posted by VDB

Circle Square
Masterplan | City Zone

Developer: Bruntwood | Floors: 12-36 | Office space: 390,000sqft
No. of apartments: 1,000+ | Timescale: 2016-2025

Current Status: Phase 1 under construction

Nearest transport: Oxford Road

Thread: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...#post123105881

Originally Posted by VDB

Toast Rack Redevelopment | Fallowfield
Apartments | South Manchester

No. of apartments: 210 | Developer: Generation | Architect: Ollier Smurthwaite

Current status: Pre-planning

Nearest transport: Levenshulme

Thread: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...#post131080843

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New renders released of this proposal:

Originally Posted by VDB

X1 Eastbank Plaza | New Islington
Apartments | City Zone

Floors: 10 | Number of apartments: 201 | Developer: X1

Current status: Planning application submitted

Nearest transport: New Islington


Thread: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...#post125550184

Meanwhile, a piling drill is on site for phase 2