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News Release from: Marley Eternit | Subject: Cladding
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 22 May 2006
Marley Eternit cladding wins inside and
out
Four colours and two types of cladding from Marley Eternit have been used externally and internally to transform a former NCP car park into an award-winning futuristic apartment building.
Four colours and two types of cladding from Marley Eternit have been used externally and internally to transform a former NCP car park into an award-winning futuristic apartment building on the banks of a canal Marley Eternit's Lamina External high pressure laminate cladding panels in pastel grey and saffron have been used externally at The Lock Building in Manchester city centre while white and pastel grey again have been used internally
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 9 Apr 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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White panels of the company's Reynobond aluminium composite cladding have also been used internally.
The site on Whitworth Street West was also previously a hospital and pumping station but developers Dandara have transformed it into a prestige block of 154 balconied apartments including duplexes, live/work units and a cafe.
These are arranged around an atrium that is spanned by a series of bridge walkways suspended from the atrium roof that criss-cross the street, rising right to the top floor and providing access to the apartments.
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A stunning entrance piazza gives access to what has been dubbed "Manchester's exclusive inner space" in which the internal facades are sloped to permit maximum light penetration into the communal areas.
Designed by the city's mblc architects + urbanists, the building is essentially split into two blocks of 10 and 11 floors each either side of the central glazed street, with self-contained car parking at ground and basement levels.
Winner of the Manchester Evening News' award "Best Apartment Scheme 2005", the brief from Dandara to mblc was to design an apartment building that maximised the potential of the cramped site near the Rochdale canal in line with both built and planned residential buildings in the Manchester area.
Mblc's plans to clad the concrete frame in terracotta rainscreen, insulated render and zinc as well as Marley Eternit's high pressure laminate and aluminium composite panels were approved after detailed consultations with the local authority.
The practice has specified Marley Eternit cladding in various forms several times in the past for varying projects and at The Lock Building it was fabricated by the FGF group that had to curve the aluminium composite cladding around the ends of the walkways.
Steve Bradshaw of mblc said: "The Marley Eternit product was chosen to form division screens between apartments on balconies and terraced areas for its durability and appearance, the colour because of its neutrality. Request a free brochure from Marley Eternit ...
"It sits well with the other hard cladding materials and curtain walling which surround the elements formed by the Marley Eternit cladding.".
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