Lecture at Riba North by Matt Brook of Broadway Malyan about Mann Island

Architect Matt Brook talks about the innovative, yet sensitively designed Mann Island scheme, which has not only been commercially successful but has also won many design accolades.

Mann Island: Reconnecting the city to its historic waterfront

Sitting adjacent to Liverpool’s world-renowned ‘Three Graces’, the award-winning Mann Island scheme reconnects the city centre to its historic waterfront via a sequence of three new buildings and public spaces.

It sits at the heart of Liverpool’s Mercantile World Heritage site and is a truly mixed use regeneration project, comprising; 363 apartments, retail and leisure space, Grade A BREEAM Excellent office space and a covered public realm that includes an internal exhibition area.

The highly successful project was achieved through Broadway Malyan’s rigorous design approach and by knowing the site, the city and its psyche, a scheme was designed that has not only been commercially successful but has also won many design accolades.

Speaker: Matt Brook, Broadway Malyan
A hugely passionate architect, Matt has been at Broadway Malyan since 2001 and is now the practice's global design lead. As a student he was nominated for the prestigious RIBA Silver Medal and his commitment to quality design continues to this day, believing that better designed buildings and places have many measurable benefits such as improving social integration and productivity, lifting people’s spirits, increasing return on investment and increasing tourism.

Matt, is a Broadway Malyan Holdings Ltd board member and on the Executive Committee, currently leads the practice in the North West and was responsible for a range of award-winning schemes in the region including Islington Wharf in Manchester, the flagship store for Waitrose in Chester and the 2015 RIBA award-winning Mann Islandin Liverpool.

Matt is currently Co-Chair of the NWDA ‘Places Matter!’ design review panel and represents the North West as RIBA regional Chair having also sat on the RIBA nat