Chips is a residential apartment building, alongside the

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, in New Islington, Manchester, England. Historically part of

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, the building is part of an

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project, New islington

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in east Manchester which has been led by

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. Chips is a nine-storey building and was designed by the architect Will Alsop, founder of Alsop Architects. The structural engineers where Civic Engineers.

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of Urban Splash requested that the building be away from "mundanity", and came up with Chips with Alsop. In January 2018 Chips failed a Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service risk assessment and the cladding on the building was found to have "non fire retardant" written on it.

Background

Chips is part of the New Islington regeneration project east of Manchester city centre.

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