Chips, Manchester

Chips is a residential apartment building, alongside the Ashton Canal, in New Islington, Manchester, England. Historically part of Ancoats, the building is part of an urban renewal project in east Manchester which has been led by Urban Splash.Chips consists of eight storeys and was designed by Will Alsop. Tom Bloxham of Urban Splash requested a building away from "mundanity" and came up with Chips with Alsop.BackgroundChips is part of the New Islington regeneration project east of Manchester city centre.