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Written by:host
3/27/2009 11:06 AM 

First look: Will Alsop’s ‘Chips’  

March 26, Manchester

According to Alsop, the 100m-long, nine-storey building for developer Urban Splash was inspired ‘by three fat chips piled on top of one another’. The 142-apartment scheme, which sits between the Ashton and Rochdale canals, has a mix of one, two and three-bedroom flats. The upper stories are clad in ‘newspaper print’ to ‘echo the industrial heritage of the surrounding Ancoats area’. Work is expected to finish on the lower ‘chip’ in early Summer 2009...more

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