IN Residence: Ian Simpson

Inside the architect s expansive apartment atop a Manchester skyscraper. For British architect Ian Simpson, home sweet home is a twostory penthouse apartment with inordinately high ceilings, an enviable contemporary furniture collection and a wellrooted indoor garden. Situated 47 floors above Manchester in the Beetham Towera groundbreaking building designed by Simpson that is celebrating its tenth anniversarythe flat is an expansive study in highrise living, and the building the tallest in the UK outside of London. At present, Simpson himself is busy transforming the capitals landscape, with projects including the redevelopment of Battersea Power Station, and the construction of One Blackfriars, a shiny new glass tower on the South Bank.