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Green light for Hawkins Brown’s £90m Manchester library

By 2024-02-16T10:13:00

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Library specialist Schmidt Hammer Larsen also working on plans for 13-storey “front door” of university’s city centre campus

Manchester council has approved plans by Hawkins Brown for a £90m library designed for Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU).

The 13-storey scheme will see the partial demolition of the university’s existing All Saints Library and the construction of a low-carbon replacement containing just over 22,000sq m of floorspace.

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