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Eagle Star House
Mosley Street, 1973

Architect[s]:		Cruikshank and Seward
Area[s]:		Central
Theme[s]:		1960's Modern

Incorporating what must be one of the last built elements of Manchester’s proposed elevated city centre pedestrian deck Eagle Star House contrasts with the scale and verticality of its built context. A level of deck sits above street shop frontage, above which are three storeys of horizontally expressed offices and a rooftop penthouse. End elevations express the section of the scheme with circulation space being articulated by a full height cleft running from deck level upwards. Clad in smooth Portland stone its Modernist credentials are emphasised with a Corbusian stair meeting the street corner at the northern end of the building.

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