Construction is now well advanced on the latest addition to the Manchester skyline – Angel Gardens.

The scheme, co-designed with Glasgow-based architects HAUS Collective, includes an iconic 35 storey tower and provides a total of 458 one, two and three bedroom apartments set around semi-private interactive gardens alongside bars, restaurants and retail space. Angel Gardens will be the flagship of Moda, one of the UKs leading BTR brands, and is the first major residential component of The Co-operative Group and Hermes Investment Management’s NOMA masterplan.

Angel Gardens will extend to 530,000sq.ft including two levels of underground parking offering 149 car spaces. At ground floor level, 19,000sq.ft of commercial restaurants and cafés will activate the street frontages and a new pedestrian street is to be created from Miller Street to Angel Street providing quality public realm faced with commercial units.

The development comprises 4 distinct volumes arranged in a pinwheel plan: the main tower addressing the key intersection between Miller Street / Rochdale Road / Swan Street / Shudhill; and three 7 storey blocks addressing Miller Street, Angel Street and Angel Mews. The 7-storey block fronting Miller Street has a single storey extension of the external façade system to enclose the rooftop resident amenity facilities.

Completion is due to be achieved in 2019. Caddick Construction is delivering the scheme.