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Bright Building

Location: Manchester, UK
Client: Bruntwood
Completion: 2017

Located at the centre of Manchester Science Park (MSP), Bright Building provides start-ups and corporate businesses with flexible offices and labs, arranged around an atrium complete with a café and restaurant, gym, meeting spaces, and conferencing and networking spaces. A BREEAM Excellent building, Bright Building sets a new standard within the MSP, expressing innovation and discovery in every aspect of its design exemplified by its glazed sawtooth façade that projects from a brick plinth.

four-storey glazed building with angled protrusions on either side of a glazed atrium entrance volume with multi-storey-high lighting sculpture visible
office interior showing seating along a window, wooden wall with doorway, cantilevered black block meeting room with seating underneath
entrance of an office building with glazing at grade, and dark brick above with inset portions in a pattern
four-storey glazed building with angled protrusions on either side of a glazed atrium entrance volume with multi-storey-high lighting sculpture visible
Bright Building viewed on an angle showing the side of the building facade with dark brick and the front of the building fully glazed
office interior with ampitheatre style seating and stairs, a raised black box studio space with glazing and further seating underneath
entrance of the Bright Building glazed volume with lighting sculpture seen from a distance between two red brick buildings