Ian Simpson wins town hall contract
28th November, 2009
Ian Simpson, the architect whose glassy monoliths have become synonymous with 21st-century Manchester, has won the race to refurbish the town hall extension.
His company were awarded the contract this week – with London-based Ryder Architecture getting a second, to re-fit the Central Library.
The entire project is expected to take four years and cost in the region of £165m.
Council chiefs have promised the new designs will be ’sympathethic’. Something like this, perhaps?
