100 King Street, formerly the Midland Bank, is a former bank premises on King Street in

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, England. It was designed by

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in 1928 and constructed in 1933–35. It is Lutyens' major work in Manchester and was designated a

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in 1974.

Architecture

A castle-like

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building, surrounded by roads on all four sides, the architects for the former bank were Lutyens in collaboration with Whinney, Son & Austen Hall and it was built between 1933 and 1935 by J. Gerrard & Sons of Swinton and features carvings by the local sculptor

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. It is constructed of

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around a steel frame. Its neoclassical design is unusual for Manchester; the style perhaps more suited to the

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, as most of Manchester's buildings are

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. "The proportions are ingeniously calculated, as Lutyens ... adored to do. The top stage is two-thirds of the stage from the obelisks to the next set-back, and that middle stage is two-thirds of the bottom stage."Hartwell ''Lancashire; Manchester and the South-East''; p. 317 It is sometimes known as ''The King of King Street'' because of its distinct structure and height. From 1912, Lutyens laid out

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as the new capital of India. He devised his own Delhi Order of

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there, with small bells hanging from the

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s of the columns, and subsequently made use of this order in his design for the bank.

History

The bank was renamed

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after

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acquired the

Midland Bank Midland Bank plc was one of the Big Four (banks)#United Kingdom, Big Four banking groups in the United Kingdom for most of the 20th century. It is now part of HSBC. The bank was founded as the Birmingham and Midland Bank in Union Street, Birming ...

in the 1990s. It closed on 6 June 2008 when HSBC relocated to St Ann's Square. The building was subsequently refurbished to provide office space and was placed on the office rental market in March 2010.

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opened an Italian restaurant in the former banking hall in 2011, which closed in 2019 after the company went into administration. A plan to convert the upper floors of the building into a boutique hotel was announced in 2013. In April 2015, the Hotel Gotham opened on the upper floors of the building. In August 2022,

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announced that he planned to open a restaurant in the unit formerly occupied by Jamie's Italian. 'Lucky Cat Manchester', Ramsey's Tokyo-themed restaurant, opened at the site on 1 June 2023. The restaurant spans three floors and features a private dining room situated in the underground

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History

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