Gateway House, Manchester

Gateway House
Gateway House and Piccadilly Station approach pictured in 2011 before the 2017 refurbishment
Alternative names	Piccadilly House
General information
Architectural style	Modernist
Location	Piccadilly, Manchester, England
Current tenants	empty
Completed	1969
Renovated	2017
Owner	Realty Estates
Height	36 m (118 ft)
Technical details
Floor count	9
Floor area	12,861 m2 (138,430 sq ft)
Design and construction
Architect(s)	Richard Seifert
References
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Gateway House in Manchester, England, is a modernist office block above a row of shops designed by Richard Seifert & Partners and completed in 1969. It replaced a row of 19th-century railway warehouses on the approach to Manchester Piccadilly station. The building, which differed from much of Seifert's contemporary work in that it departed from the bare concrete brutalist style which had become his trademark, was nicknamed the "lazy S" and was reputedly designed as a doodle.