31 Booth St Office Building Manchester, Upper King Street Conservation Area Building, Images, Architect
31 Booth Street Office Building Manchester
Grade 2 Listed Offices in North West England, UK: Development for Helical ? design by OMI Architects
28 Feb 2017
Booth Street Offices in Manchester
Location: 31 Booth Street, Central Manchester, Lancashire
Design: OMI Architects
Manchester office transformation completes
31 Booth Street is a Grade 2 listed office building in the Upper King Street Conservation Area, which forms the traditional commercial centre of Manchester. Originally designed by prolific Victorian practice Clegg and Knowles in 1868 the Venetian Gothic corner block was significantly altered in the 1980s. More recently the building had become vacant and in need of bringing up to modern office standards whilst providing a new identity for the building. A simple facelift would not achieve this goal and consequently OMI were commissioned to deliver a series of bold interventions that focused on how people enter and circulate within the building whilst also upgrading the office spaces themselves.
To announce this transformation a previously blocked up historic archway on Booth St was opened up to form the main building entrance. This key intervention offered the opportunity to resolve issues of access and legibility, whilst also realigning the building with Booth St consequently leading to the buildings rebranding.

Externally on Booth St a high quality bronze e...