The Sharp Project
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September 1st, 2010
We’ve just taken the roof off Phase 3.
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After raising the supporting structure we can get on with creating 25,000 sq ft of functional well-designed office space. The new roof will have numerous triangular light wells which will flood the central space with light.
August 13th, 2010
TOP 100 UK law firm Ward Hadaway has moved into a new multi-million pound digital, media and creative complex in Manchester.
Members of Ward Hadaway’s specialist Creative Industries team have taken up residence in the Sharp Project.
August 3rd, 2010
Shine TV has kicked off a new BBC children’s series at Manchester’s newest production base, the Sharp Project in east Manchester. Filming for the show, ‘My Genius Idea’, has started and nine 30 minute programmes will be broadcast on CBBC later this year.
Founded by Elisabeth Murdoch, Shine TV is one of the UK’s largest independent production companies specialising in entertainment, factual and drama programmes including MasterChef, Don’t Stop Believing, Merlin and The Biggest Loser. Set up in 2001, it has offices in London, Manchester and Cardiff.
July 15th, 2010
MOTIV 100% Experience, Sharp Futures, takes pupils out of the classroom to pitch their ideas to some of Manchester’s most influential business leaders…
July 5th, 2010
PRESS RELEASE
The Sharp Project has signed up more tenants, including new start-ups SUNDE Technologies and Peddlers Cross Creative, to the newly refurbished 15,000 sq ft office accommodation which forms part of the 200,000 sq ft digital content complex, due to be completed early next year. This takes the total number of tenants now locating at the east Manchester site to 24.
One of the office spaces available at Sharp
June 17th, 2010
Here is a short film detailing AOC’s involvement in the 2010 FutureEverything Festival in Manchester.
This is how the festival described the project…
“Fresh from their Ghost Village project transforming an abandoned village on the west coast of Scotland, the contemporary art collective Agents of Change will work in secret and at a monumental scale, transforming an urban location in Manchester for the Future Everything festival. The very special secret location will be visible only over a video link, with clues to its location being gradually released, culminating in a public opening on the last day of the festival.”
May 17th, 2010
Agents of Change - Big Art
Contemporary art collective, Agents of Change, have completed a large scale installation artwork at The Sharp Project as part of the FutureEverything festival.
March 18th, 2010
The North West Development Agency and the European Regional Development Fund have invested £6.3m into The Sharp Project, a digital media hub in east Manchester.
March 18th, 2010
The North West Regional Development Agency has announced that it will put £6.3m of additional funding into the Sharp Project, the digital media hub being created at Sharp Electronics’ former European distribution centre fronting Oldham Road in Newton Heath.
March 8th, 2010
The director of a 2009 MVA winner for Best Budget Video (Speech Debelle), and several other excellent low budget promos (for Kap Bambino and Miike Snow, among others) last year has now hit the premier league.