Stunning five-storey office interior for Virgin Media O2 A Project By: SpaceInvader Location: Manchester Project Summary: Designers SpaceInvader have completed a nearly 50,000 sq ft office interior for Virgin Media O2 across five floors of Island, the new, 10-storey, 100,000 sq ft, net zero carbon workspace on John Dalton Street in Manchester’s central business district. The building, completed in late 2024 for developer HBD, was designed by architects Cartwright Pickard with Cat A interiors by EPR Architects. Project Detail: With the new tenancy agreement signed in October 2024, SpaceInvader was appointed for the fit-out project against stiff competition from major-name architectural firms because of their ‘outstanding creativity and deep understanding of the culture of the city of Manchester’ according to Barbara Johnston, Senior Property Programmes and Project Manager at Virgin Media O2. SpaceInvader kicked the project off with a series of co-creation workshops with the team based at the existing Virgin Media O2 Wythenshawe office in South Manchester. The workshops were aimed at pinpointing design priorities, as well as discovering what the team liked or didn’t about their existing offices. The project then followed a strict ideation schedule before a 22-week construction programme by lead contractor Overbury, which hit all … Continue reading Step Inside Virgin Media Manchester O2 HQ