Type Office Location Manchester Completed 1986 Opened 1986 | Architectural style Postmodernism Country United Kingdom Architect Holford Associates | |
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Lincoln House is an office building on Deansgate in Manchester, England. It was designed in the 1980s by Holford Associates. It is completely clad in glass and was designed as a deliberate response to the 1960s and 1970s Brutalist architecture that engulfed many British cities. It was built in 1986 for the Lincoln House Chambers, a legal practise based in Manchester.
Map of Lincoln House, 125 Deansgate, Manchester M3 2LH, UK
By the 1980s the Manchester City Council Planning Department rejected Brutalist proposals in the city believing such buildings to be cold and depressing pieces of architecture. The department were instead inclined to approve safe architecture such as brick buildings. Holford Associates set about fulfilling this move forward by proposing a glass building which demonstrated the latest technologies and improvements in neoprene sealants.