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After much anticipation, Beetham tower is officially opened for business! Beetham tower dominates the sky, the media have created massive attention from the start with its doors finally open this autumn; the media have regarded it as the Hilton Tower.

BEETHAM Tower has 48 floors and is 171 meters (561 feet) in height; it features a striking, slender glass tower –with a glass ‘blade’ increasing the height of the building, creating the tallest building in the UK outside of London and the UK’s 7th tallest building. Soaring across the skyline, this Manchester landmark is ideally located in the heart of the city ‘Deansgate’, within minute’s walk of the city centre. This impressive building had taken construction workers almost 2 years to build now officially completed it looks amazing, very stylish and slick, more importantly it provides splendid views all over the city, reports suggest impressive views can be seen as far as Anglican cathedral in Liverpool and Blackpool Tower.

Within this tower, includes the exclusive corporate 5* hotel chain ‘HILTON’ comprising the lower 23 floors, with more than 270 rooms available, visitors of Manchester are flocking to use their facilities and experience those breathtaking views. In addition there is a state of the art ‘sky bar’ on the 23rd floor, conference facilities, a ballroom, a health centre, shops and restaurants. The upper floors of the Hilton hotel consist of 219 spacious and luxurious apartments ready to be purchased by those special people, with prices ranging from astonishing £100,000 and £2.5m.At this price tag, many celebrities such as footballers have snapped up on these gorgeous apartments as their second home and even making a profit or to by re-selling. The architecture Ian Simpson, has bought the two stories penthouse for a staggering £3 million; this price indicating; its no ordinary penthouse, covering 8,000 sq ft, 30ft tall olive trees and a pool he is one extraordinary person to be residing in Britain’s highest home.

Manchester newest skyscraper has also picked up a few prestigious awards along its journey, the most recent is the award for the building of the year 2006, fighting of huge competition from up and down the country. We will be posting more about MANCHESTER future developments soon!!!

Here are some general facts of Beetham Tower:

* The tallest residential building in the UK.
* The tallest structure outside London.
* 200 ft higher than the CIS building, now Manchester’s second tallest building.
* Built with 57,500 tonnes of concrete.
* Coated with 6,000 glass panels

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http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk