More images have been released from Soho House ahead of its highly-anticipated Manchester launch.
The exclusive members’ club operates sites across the globe, including in Mykonos, Barcelona, Paris, Rome, New York and Mumbai, but this will be its first foray into the north of England.
Soho House is currently taking shape in the former Granada Studios, turning it into luxury destination with a bar and terrace, workspace, and a rooftop swimming pool.
Memberships are expected to cost somewhere around the £1,000 mark (for comparison, annual memberships at Soho House London are £1,100, while Little House Mayfair is £700 per year) when it opens this year.
Inside, there’ll be various spaces for members to eat, drink, socialise and work out, with the new images including an artist render of a luxury gym.
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The gym at Soho House Manchester. Credit: SuppliedThe rooftop pool at Soho House Manchester. Credit: Supplied
The members’ club will span the top two floors, overlooking a rooftop pool and outdoor terrace.
Then on the first floor will be an extensive gym for members, with a free weights area, boxing zone, studio space, steam, sauna and an outdoor terrace, with showers, vanity areas and lounge spaces.
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Across the remaining floors there will be members’ events spaces and bedrooms.
The new images show a bar and lounge space decorated with a rich jade green terrazzo-style floor that matches the one surrounding the rooftop pool.
There’s also a long marble bar, and dozens of low couches and armchairs.
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Soho House‘s exact opening date and membership options will be revealed soon.
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Travel & Tourism
Silva Treehouse – the Lake District escape where you can slide into your own den
Daisy Jackson
There’s nothing like disappearing into the countryside for a weekend, especially when it’s the Lake District, and especially when your escape is taking place in a multi-storey, luxury treehouse.
Three huge bedrooms, two bathrooms, a hot tub, a full kitchen, three balconies, a cosy lounge, and a slide that will zip you down to your very own den filled with games and a bar.
Welcome to Silva Treehouse, a beautiful bolthole near Penrith that might be one of the most well-designed pads we’ve ever been blessed to clap eyes upon.
The whole ‘digital detox’, screen-free movement has become a bit of a thing in recent years, with a whole company dedicated to making cabins where you lock your phones away for the weekend.
Silva Treehouse offers no such novelty lockbox – but one look out of those gigantic windows at the rolling countryside and you’ll drop your phone willingly.
There’s no telly, no Wi-Fi. In fact, there’s only about four buttons in the entire building. It’s just a radio, a few board games and those staggering views, and you won’t want anything else.
From sitting on a plush sofa with the log burner kicking out heat, watching the sun set over the fields, to getting up early and watching deer and hare frolicking in the dawn mist, there’s way more to soothe your soul here that you could ever get from Netflix.
The layout of the treehouse itself is remarkable. Guests head up a short flight of stairs to a huge deck, which is home to a large dining table and the hot tub.
The stunning views from the Silva Treehouse loungeThe master bedroom in the Lake District treehouseThe hot tub with countryside views
Inside on this level is an open-plan kitchen/dining room/living space, kitted out with all the equipment you need to keep yourself fed and not having to leave the house for days (the hosts also left us dozens of eggs from their chickens).
Up another short flight of stairs you’ll find the master bedroom, with a four-poster bed and its own whimsical balcony, plus the smallest (but still double) bedroom, where you’ll wake up to one of the best views in the place.
Then in the very rafters of the treehouse is bedroom number three, a huge mezzanine space where you can sleep surrounded by wood.
This is a very grown-up and sophisticated treehouse, but whoever said that can’t be loads of fun too? This place has got all sorts of entertainment to help you switch off, relax, and be a bit silly too.
And that’s where the coolest feature comes in, accessed via the second deck – a metal slide that plummets you back down to ground level, and to your very own den.
A bar, a ping-pong table, a dart board, a fire pit (complete with marshmallows for toasting), a pizza oven, hammocks, an extra bathroom, and loads of seating too, all tucked down beneath the main accommodation.
The bar in the denThe den beneath Silva Treehouse
If you can get down that slide without squealing “Weeeeee!” and regressing back to your childhood, we don’t want to know you (there is a door if you don’t want to brave the slide).
If you can tear yourself away, there’s prime countryside on your doorstep, from the Lake District itself to the SSSI of the River Eden, including sandstone caves, hidden waterfalls, mountain views and riverside strolls.
It’s taken the family behind Silva Treehouse 15 years to painstakingly construct it from homegrown timber amongst the trees, with the ambitious project growing bigger as the couple behind it, Lucy and Grant, had more ideas.
It’s really, really been worth the wait.
See more pictures below and book your stay with Canopy & Stars HERE.
Silva Treehouse in the Lake District
The firepit beside Silva TreehouseEnjoying the viewsSilva Treehouse has a slideThe smallest of the three bedroomsThe living room at Silva TreehouseThe balcony off the master bedroomThe wood-fired hot tub in actionThe mezzanine bedroomEnjoying the viewsA log burnerBathroomSilva Treehouse has a slideSilva TreehouseSilva Treehouse kitchenThose views again…The log burner in actionSilva Treehouse comes with binocularsLooking up at the balcony
Featured image: The Manc Group
Travel & Tourism
Manchester misses out on top spot and ranks as second best city in Europe for live music
Emily Sergeant
Manchester has missed out on the top spot and has been ranked the second best city in Europe for live music lovers.
If there’s one thing Manchester is known and loved for over anything else, it’s music.
From Oasis and Joy Division, to Happy Mondays, The Smiths, The Stone Roses, The 1975, and even more modern-day acts, there’s no end to the amount of talented artists this city has produced or been home to over the years, all contributing to Manchester being one of the most prestigious music cities there is.
The city’s live music scene has always been thriving, and that continues right through to this very day, as you’ll see big-name musicians including Manchester as a destination in their UK tour schedules more often than not.
Sabrina Carpenter and Gracie Abrams were some of the most-recent global popstars to take to the Manchester stage, and in the last few days, music icons like Stevie Wonder and John Legend have announced they’re stopping off in our city this year.
Manchester has been ranked the second best live music city in Europe / Credit: Josh Sorenson | Eldhose Kuryian (via Unsplash)
We have a wealth of live music venues in and around the city centre, ranging from massive arenas like the AO Arena and the newest addition of Co-op Live, and stadiums such as the Etihad and Emirates Old Trafford, right through to other middle-sized indoor and outdoor venues like the Apollo, O2 Victoria Warehouse and The Ritz, Castlefield Bowl, and Aviva Studios, and of course the smaller stops like Manchester Academy, New Century Hall, Albert Hall, and the Bridgewater Hall.
And that’s without even getting into the countless other grass-roots and independent small venues like Band On The Wall, Night & Day Cafe, The Deaf Institute, Gorilla, and loads more.
So, you’d think with an illustrious reputation like that, we’d be the best musical city in Europe… sadly though, we’ve missed out on the top spot to the German capital of Berlin, and have had to settle for second place.
We missed out on the top spot to the German capital of Berlin / Credit: Bruno Cervera (via Unsplash)
After all, the famous saying does go ‘first the worst, second the best’.
It’s all according to a new study by hospitality group Accor, which analysed the top European cities for live music by collecting data, such as the total number of available gig listings in 2025, global monthly search trends, and venue ratings, from popular event and ticketing websites.
Manchester came runner up with an overall gig city score of 87.2 out of 100, thanks to having a total of 966 gigs planned this year already and a venue rating of 4.57 stars out of five.
Daisy Jackson -
14th February 2023 
