Albany Crown Tower

The Albany Crown Tower (or simply the Albany Tower) was a planned development for the city of Manchester in England. Its proposed location is on Aytoun and Auburn Streets, fronting onto Rochdale Canal and near Piccadilly Station. If constructed it will be one of the tallest buildings in Manchester. It was expected to cost £83 million. It was designed by Ian Simpson, and was due to be developed by Albany Crown. Planning permission was given in 2005 but as of late 2010 construction has still not commenced and the developer Albany entered administration in May 2010 seemingly leaving the project dead in the water. The original proposed height of the building was 131 m (430 ft), with 44 floors, providing 35,298.00 square metres of space. The...