Buttress Architects | Broad Road

The Broad Road development of 45 affordable apartments and an adjoining car park for 440 vehicles is located on a key site in Sale, south Manchester.

Apartments are arranged in an L shape giving each the best amenity from the site’s orientation. All apartments are accessed by galleries from a single core and the eight units at ground floor level have their own private garden sitting around a lower level courtyard.

The south west corner of the wedge-shaped site is reinforced and dramatised by the prow of the building, which creates a strong visual link with the tram station opposite and responds to the adjacent tram lines.

The building’s envelope of white brick sits into the varied context of Sale’s characteristic brick built high street and the new waterside development the council’s contemporary office and arts centre.