tutti frutti, manchester

Tutti Frutti refers to a site in New Islington, under development by a partnership between English Partnerships, Manchester City Council and Urban Splash.

The site is alongside a newly created canal network that forms the north and west boundaries. The street will be a row of 26 family houses, built in a terrace and inspired by the Borneo Sporenburg Docks development in Amsterdam. Each housing plot is purchased by an individual client, who appoints their own architect, with the ambition to create a diverse and architecturally interesting street. Schemes for the first 6 houses were granted in a competition.

To complete this development, a 'bookend' building is proposed for the western end of the terrace overlooking the canal, completing the row and becoming an iconic symbol for this unique project. Project Orange was appointed to design this building by Urban Splash following a competition. The brief was to provide some commercial use for the lower storeys, and for family residential accommodation above. The scheme is intended as a cluster of glossy, exciting and individual objects that interlock in a three dimensional expression of the separate homes making up the street.