Construction work on the new Hotel Indigo Manchester Victoria has now reached the ‘topping-out’ stage. 

When complete, Hotel Indigo Manchester Victoria will comprise a refurbished existing Grade II-listed building – the City Building -  with a new 14-storey tower addition.

The hotel will act as the gateway site to the £800million NOMA development in Manchester’s Northern Quarter.

Hotel Indigo Manchester Victoria will have 187 bedrooms plus a restaurant and café.

Construction of Hotel Indigo Manchester Victoria is on target to deliver an October 2018 opening.

Details: http://www.hotelindigomanchester.co.uk/

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Published: 16 May 2018

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A £56million project and ten years work reach their conclusion later this week when two halves of the Royal Academy in London are ‘welded together’.

The new-look Royal Academy will have up to 70% more exhibition space and will display the country’s sole Michelangelo marble as well as paintings by Turner, Millais and Hockney. 

Tucked in the corner of the Royal Academy’s courtyard, the newly-opened Keeper’s House provides new events space.  

Keepers House is a 19th century town house which features a new restaurant, cocktail bar, lounge and secret garden.

Keeper’s House is available to hire for drinks receptions, breakfast buffets and dining.

Keeper’s House includes the Sir Hugh Casson Room equipped with a sound system, projector and screen and accommodating up to 100 guests for a reception.

The Belle Shenkman Room is available for small groups up to 25. Half of the main restaurant in Keeper’s House can also be privatised for up to 46 guests.

The Royal Academy is based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London. It reopens to the public on 19^thMay 2018.

Details: https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/

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Published: 15 May 2018

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A new four-star aparthotel could be opening in the centre of Birmingham. 

The project would see a 173-room aparthotel open in Louisa Ryland House, if plans just submitted to the council are approved.

Louisa Ryland House is a cluster of three Victorian buildings located behind Birmingham’s Council House at the junction of Cornwall Street and Newhall Street.

The building has been empty since it was sold for development in 2014.

Louisa Ryland House dates from 1879. It was originally three separate buildings - the Medical Institute, the Board School Offices and the Parish Offices.

The aparthotel operator, Native, who already operate hotels in Manchester and London, is planning to convert the Grade II-listed building into an aparthotel with a restaurant and café plus a fitness studio on the ground floor.

A glass-roofed conservatory would extend from the reception through to an open-air courtyard area.

Louisa Ryland House was named after the Victorian heiress and benefactor who left large tracts of land to the city including the site which is now Cannon Hill Park.

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Published: 15 May 2018

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A planning application has been submitted for a five-storey, 203-bedroom hotel opposite the new £25million conference centre currently under construction in Blackpool. 

The hotel will be either a three or four-star standard. The hotel will feature a restaurant and bar, a spa facility and a car park on the lower ground floor.

The site for the new hotel is currently vacant but it is opposite the new conference centre as well as being near to the Grade-listed Blackpool Winter Gardens.

A glazed bridge walkway is proposed to link the hotel with the new conference centre.

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Published: 14 May 2018

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