• 
  Project Title

  Factory International Aviva Studios

• 
  Winning Firm
  
  

  OMA

• 
  Lead Designer
  
  

  Ellen van Loon

• 
  Awarded
  
  WINNER, ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, Exhibition / Cultural

• Project Location
  Manchester, United Kingdom
• Project Status
  Completed
• Completion Date
  February, 2023
• Photographer credit
  Marco Cappelletti


• Architectural Firm
   
• Architect Firm / Studio Name
  OMA
• Lead Architect(s)
  Ellen van Loon

Since it was launched in 2007, the Manchester International Festival has taken place in existing buildings both large and small throughout the city. But spaces with the qualities needed by the art pieces commissioned by the Festival are fewer and fewer, disappearing amid Manchester’s fast-paced redevelopment into England’s new economic hub. In 2015 Manchester City Council launched an architecture competition for a new kind of art venue for the Manchester International Festival (MIF), capable of hosting both art performances and exhibitions, separately or simultaneously.