Complete renovation of a triplex penthouse apartment on the top floor of No.1 Deansgate in Manchester City Centre.
The construction was completed in 2018.
This view introduces the project at urban scale, showing how the glazed top-floor intervention sits against the wider Manchester skyline.
From this elevated angle, the stacked levels and transparent facade clearly express the triplex organization.
These first views set up the renovation language: a dark, reflective interior shell contrasted against bright city-facing glazing and a clear structural stair line connecting the levels.
Here the glazing grid and repeated frame bays become more legible, giving the apartment a strong rhythm while keeping long views outward across Manchester.
These perspectives read almost like sectional studies, showing how the triplex stacks vertically and how the facade depth mediates light, privacy, and views.
The interior program shifts between social seating and working space, with furniture kept minimal so the skyline and natural light remain the main focus.
These views reinforce the material contrast: dark enclosure, bright floor planes, and a lightweight stair that keeps visual continuity through the triplex.
The wider exterior perspective situates the project within the Manchester skyline and emphasizes the penthouse as a precise insertion at the top of the existing building.
This next view returns to the interior language of the project, focusing on transparency, layering, and movement across the triplex levels.
This image returns to interior depth and transparency, showing how layered glazing frames movement between rooms and levels.
The vertical-format drawings communicate technical intent, clarifying the sectional logic and detailing strategy behind the built interiors.
This study isolates one of the key technical moments, showing how edge conditions are resolved while retaining the clean architectural expression.
Images: Studio Maurice Shapero