111 Piccadilly

Technically interesting in that this building spans the Rochdale Canal sixteen storeys of tower sit above a two storey podium. The language of large scaled planar concrete is carried straight from the tower into the podium without articulation. The tower reads as vertically expressive structural elements encasing aggressively horizontal trays of floor and strip glazing. Perhaps making reference to the work of Louis Khan the scheme forms a muscular counterpart to its neighbour, the slinky Gateway House.