Union Co-Living
Manchester, United Kingdom
Vita Group
Project Union T1 2019 – 2024
Project Union T2 2019 – current
The Union T1 and T2 buildings are developed by Vita as a live/work community for young professionals and key city workers. They provide affordable living units, workspace, public amenity spaces and curated retail.
The Union buildings are recognised as the residential core of St. John’s Enterprise City, one of Manchester’s primary regeneration areas. The living accommodation comprises four, three and two bed apartments, and studios, tailored to appeal to the creative and tech talent driving the broader occupation of Enterprise City.
The buildings are designed as a pair of towers united by their materiality but subtly distinguished by their overall architectural composition.
Union T1 is 32 storeys incorporating 380 apartments/870 beds, with residents’ amenity space, gym and flexible commercial space.
The towers are visually expressed with an articulated silver-grey ‘grid’ laid over a solid black colour ‘box’. The vertical ‘grid’ spans two and with four storeys to emphasise their slender form. This architectural approach integrates with other buildings within Enterprise City, helping to characterise this evolving and exciting new neighbourhood in Manchester’s city centre.
