Number One Riverside
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Council building to house office space, a public library and a ‘customer-facing’ service centre overlooking the opened-up River Roch
The council building houses Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council’s 1,700 employees, formerly scattered across 33 different buildings, under a single roof.
A transparent facade leads to a five-storey, top-lit central street, that opens to the building's public functions, the library, service centre, meeting and conference rooms.
The open-sided atrium, which is criss-crossed with bridges is flanked by two Allen key-shaped blocks that contain four floors of open plan office space with the council room on the second floor.
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- Begun: Mar 2011
- Completed: Jan 2013
- Floor area: 17,000m2
- Sector: Civic
- Total cost: £42.5M
- Procurement: Single stage design and build
- Address: Rochdale Borough Council, Number One Riverside, Smith Street, Rochdale, OL16 9NP, United Kingdom
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Professional Team
- Architect: FaulknerBrowns
- Client: Rochdale Borough Council
- Structural engineer: Curtins Consulting Engineers
- M&E consultant: RPS
- Quantity surveyor: Gardiner & Theobald
- Landscape architect: Gillespies
- Planning supervisor: AA Projects
- Main contractor: AELTC
- Lighting consultant: Artemide
- Lighting consultant: RPS
- Lighting consultant: NG Bailey
- Lighting consultant: Whitecroft
