Career Services Unit
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First floor is cantilevered on reinforced concrete barrel vaults
Campus building housing a University careers service, software rooms, meeting rooms and offices for sales, marketing and production
This office building is to the eastern edge of the University of Manchester campus characterised by ‘pavilion’ buildings which stand in space rather than define it. It seeks to ‘stitch’ together the abrupt ends of the adjoining buildings and create a collegiate courtyard.
A wall of polished concrete panels defines the two edges of the site and completes the courtyard on which sits the layered and rendered building. Two folded planar roofs envelop the layers and intersect to generate a reception/entrance hall which rises through the three storeys.
Link bridges bisect the space joining the office accommodation housed within the concrete framed flexible wings. Service accommodation is articulated at the ends underpinning this flexibility.
Data
- Begun: Feb 1997
- Completed: Dec 1997
- Floor area: 1,163m2
- Sector: Education
- Total cost: £1.3M
- Procurement: JCT 80
- Address: Prospects House, Booth Street East, Manchester, M13 9EP, United Kingdom
Professional Team 
- Architect: Hodder + Partners
- Project architects: Jolyon Brewis, Martin Gibson, Robert Evans, Rud Sawer, Stephen Hodder, Theo Bishop, Victoria Hilton
- Client: Careers Services Unit
- Structural engineer: Blackwood Structural Design
- Quantity surveyor: Appleyard and Trew
- Main contractor: W Snape and Sons
Suppliers
- Precast concrete cladding: Multi-Structures
- Structural glazing: TA Anders
- Windows : Metal Casements
- Louvres: Taurus Littrow International