CIS Tower
The CIS Tower is a high-rise office building on Miller Street in Manchester, England. Designed for the Co-operative Insurance Society by architects Gordon Tait and G.- Type: Office building
- Description: skyscraper on Miller Street in Manchester, England
- Also known as: “C.I.S. Solar Tower”, “Co-operative Insurance Society (CIS) Building”, and “Miller Street Tower”
- Address: Manchester, M60 0AG
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Manchester Arena and National Football Museum.
Manchester Arena
Stadium
Photo: Rob Sinclair, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Manchester Arena is an indoor arena in Manchester, England, immediately north of the city centre and partly above Manchester Victoria railway station in air rights space. Manchester Arena is situated 1,400 feet northwest of CIS Tower.
National Football Museum
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The National Football Museum is England's national museum of football. It is based in the Urbis building in Manchester city centre, and preserves, conserves and displays important collections of football memorabilia. National Football Museum is situated 890 feet west of CIS Tower.
Manchester Victoria
Railway station
Photo: Paul Hermans, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Manchester Victoria in Manchester, England, is a combined main line railway station and Metrolink tram stop. Situated to the north of the city centre on Hunts Bank, close to Manchester Cathedral, it adjoins Manchester Arena which was constructed on part of the former station site in the 1990s. Manchester Victoria is situated 1,000 feet northwest of CIS Tower.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include NOMA and Victoria-Shopping District.
NOMA
Neighborhood
Photo: The Co-operative, CC BY 2.0.
NOMA is an £800 million, 20-acre mixed-use redevelopment scheme in Manchester. It is the largest development project in North West England ahead of developments such as MediaCityUK and Atlantic Gateway.
Victoria-Shopping District
Photo: Nicholasjf21, CC BY-SA 3.0.
This covers the area in central Manchester north of Piccadilly Gardens and east of Bridge St and Princess St, served by Victoria railway station. It covers the locales of the Millennium Quarter and St.
Green Quarter
Neighborhood
The Green Quarter is an area of Manchester, England, just north of the city centre between Cheetham, Strangeways and the River Irk. From the mid-nineteenth century, the area, then known as Red Bank, was a slum housing impoverished Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, but is now home to digital start-ups and e-commerce businesses, new apartments, microbreweries, gin distilleries and restaurants.
CIS Tower
- Categories: skyscraper, building, and office
- Location: Manchester, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.48654° or 53° 29′ 12″ northLongitude
-2.2384° or 2° 14′ 18″ westInception
1962Levels
5Height
52 feet (16 metres)Open location code
9C5VFQP6+JJOpenStreetMap ID
way 30333665OpenStreetMap feature
building=officeWikidata ID
Q856319
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Egyptian Arabic to Turkish—“CIS Tower” goes by many names.
- Egyptian Arabic: “برج رابطة الدول المستقله”
- Hungarian: “CIS Torony”
- Hungarian: “CIS-torony”
- Persian: “برج خورشیدی سی ای اس”
- Persian: “برج سی ای اس”
- Persian: “برج سیایاس”
- Turkish: “CIS Kulesi, Manchester”
- Turkish: “CIS Kulesi”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Open Data Manchester and Sadler’s Yard.
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