Victoria Residence and Elizabeth Tower
Part of the first phase of the Crown Street development, Victoria Residence and Elizabeth Tower bring elegant apartments, penthouses, and townhouses to the New Jackson skyscraper district in Manchester.
The two buildings, scaling 21 and 51 stories, respectively, have been borne of advanced, creative structural engineering. Built on a pile foundation—the only skyscrapers within New Jackson constructed this way—and a shared podium, our team devised a cohesive, robust base to support the combined 664 residential units above. We designed the main vertical and lateral structural elements, as well as the floor spanning systems, in structural steel, complemented with concrete floors and other elements.
| Client | Renaker, Select Property |
|---|---|
| Architect: | SimpsonHaugh |
| Size | Victoria: 21 Stories | 237 Feet (72 M) tall | 173,450 SF (16,114 SM) / 177 Units Elizabeth: 51 Stories | 501 Feet (153 M) tall | 885,000 SF (82,210 SM) | 484 Units |
| Office: | Hebden Bridge |
| Completion: | 2020 and 2022 |
Elizabeth Tower’s six-story, bronze-clad, column-and-beam grillage foundation immediately draws the eye. The podium design integrates masterfully with its historic context, with a durable, weathered, beige brick façade that references and hearkens back to the industrial aesthetic of nearby canal offices and Victorian warehouse buildings.
Most of the luxury amenities can be found on the 44th floor of Elizabeth Tower, including a rooftop terrace that captures bird's-eye views across Manchester and beyond, a gym, studio space, and a 20-meter swimming pool—one of the highest residential swimming pools in Western Europe. To support the weight of the pool, we designed a structure that features extensively reinforced link beams to efficiently distribute loads to the core—as well as out to the perimeter columns.
On the ground floor of the complex is a National Health Service (NHS) clinic surrounded by public realm and green space—connected by a network of pedestrian and bicycle pathways.
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