Make Ltd. - Make Architects

Three New Bailey

Three New Bailey 

Make Architects

Three New Bailey
© Paul Karalius

ARCHITECTS
Make Architects

COST CONSULTANT
Rps

BRICK MANUFACTURER
Ketley Brick

MANUFACTURERS
Aluprof, Boon Edam, Ketley Brick, Sas International, Domus Group, Inscape Interiors, Thorp Precast

STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
Cundall

SERVICES ENGINEER
Hannan Associates, Thorp Precast

PROJECT MANAGER
Chroma

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
Hed

FAÇADE CONSULTANT
Wintech

CLIENT
English Cities Fund

FIRE CONSULTANT
Dfc

DESIGN ARCHITECT
Make Architects

CONTRACTOR
Bowmer + Kirkland

PHOTOGRAPHS
Paul Karalius

AREA
14733 M²

YEAR
2021

LOCATION
Salford, United Kingdom

CATEGORY
Government, Buildings

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© Paul Karalius

Text description provided by architect.

Salford’s cotton-weaving heritage was the inspiration behind the Make Architects’ designed, highly flexible commercial office building at Three New Bailey.

The scheme has reinterpreted the red brick of the local 19th-century warehouse architecture, with a range of distinctive red brick weave facade treatments that give the building its identity and celebrates it.

Three New Bailey
© Paul Karalius
Three New Bailey
© Paul Karalius

Three New Bailey is a gateway building on the Salford Central masterplan site. It has transformed a former surface car park and brownfield site into a thriving mixed-use destination. Blending office and residential buildings around the River Irwell.

As the first building to greet passengers exiting Salford Central train station, Three New Bailey establishes a strong but quiet presence fronting a new piazza. It was delivered for the Government Property Agency, specifically to become a new regional hub for Revenue and Customs.

Three New Bailey
© Paul Karalius
Three New Bailey
© Paul Karalius

The building’s simple and honest form was created in direct response to the HMRC brief and provides large, efficient, repeating floor spans with a side core to maximise flexibility in achieving their workplace needs for today and the future.

The highly-articulated facade helps to break up the orthogonal mass of the seven-storey, 14,733mbuilding, and creates depth, movement, and interest.

Three New Bailey
© Paul Karalius
Three New Bailey
© Paul Karalius

Working closely with brick contractor Thorp on technical research and innovation into the application of woven elements to the facade resulted in the selection of two weave types:

A basket weave to the short elevations and a twill weave to the long elevations which articulate a subtle variation across the proposal’s massing. Curved corner panels and glazing help the transition between elevations.

Three New Bailey
© Paul Karalius
Three New Bailey
© Paul Karalius

To emphasise the reading of the weave, vertical and horizontal facade elements are treated independently. Horizontal elements are formed with a ribbed and stacked red brick bond to emphasise the horizontal grain and maximise contrast with the vertical red brick elements laid in a stretcher bond.

Visual movement and interest are formed through the projection of facade elements away from the glazing line, in both the horizontal and vertical brick facade panels. The cladding is set out to project between a maximum of 400mm and a minimum of 100mm from the glazing line.

Three New Bailey
© Paul Karalius
Three New Bailey
© Paul Karalius

This 300mm variation in depth seeks to capture and accentuate the passing of light across the facade, generating shadows that play across the surface of the building and, in turn, reveal the weave.

The roof level has a different treatment, with a distinctive perforated screen made of open Flemish bond, hit-and-miss brick panels to control views of the plant. Infilled Flemish hit-and-miss panels are also used on the core, providing a detailed brick pattern and texture to add grain to the facade.

Three New Bailey
© Paul Karalius
Three New Bailey
© Paul Karalius

The scheme offers a generous journey through the building, from a double-height entrance that invites visitors into a spacious and active lobby.

With well-chosen materials to indicate the subtle quality and the red brick soffit and the internal spandrel panels bringing. The external architectural language into the building.


Three New Bailey
© Paul Karalius
Three New Bailey
© Paul Karalius
Three New Bailey
© Paul Karalius
Three New Bailey
© Paul Karalius


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Plan - Basement floor


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