Ordsall Chord
- Location
- Manchester, UK
- Client
- Network Rail
- Expertise
- Architecture
- Lighting
- Landscape Architecture
- Urban Design
- Completion
- 2017
- Cost
- £320m
The new railway link connects Manchester’s Piccadilly and Victoria stations for the first time.
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The Ordsall Chord, a series of new bridges and viaducts, is located in one of the most significant places in the global history of the railways. Our design response to the site of the first passenger railway in the world was another world first: an asymmetric network arch bridge.
This bridge crosses the River Irwell and sits alongside George Stephenson’s renovated 1830 bridge. Landscaping and lighting integrate the scheme into the surrounding urban fabric.
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“Where does architecture begin and end? What can architectural thinking bring to super-scale infrastructure? This project provokes these questions and responds with impressive success.
The final project brings local delight with the striking form of the new river bridge and a strong identity through its materiality and consistent detailing.”
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