The firm is understood to have secured the deal with a £44m bid for the vast store repurposing job on Croft Way.

Designed by architect Buttress, The City Centre Cultural Gateway, provide a new home for nationally recognised collections managed by Arts Council England, Arts Council Collection and the British Council.

Other floors will be occupied as a cultural hub for Coventry University housing a student gallery, café, library and dance studio, conference area, artists’ studios and post-production filming facilities.

Salford’s Environmental Services Design is the M&E consultant with Manchester-based Civil Engineers involved with the structural design.

The standalone building spans some 26,000m2 of prime city centre space across seven floors with significant on-site parking.

The project will be delivered in three phases.

• Phase 1 – involves the conversion of some floors into bespoke facilities for the storage, care and management of nationally significant arts, cultural and heritage collections.
• Phase 2 – the Cultural Hub phase is proposed by Coventry University, to provide a range of cultural educational, engagement, training, and professional development opportunities.
• Phase 3 – constitutes ‘shell and core’ works to the remaining floors that will enable future lettings to investor occupiers.

A bold new façade design is proposed to establish a new identity for the building