Gollifer Langston Architectsm engineer Michael Hadi Associates, lighting specialist Foto-Ma and quantity surveyor Measur have been announced as the winning team in a competition to design and deliver a new footbridge over the Rochdale Canal in east Manchester.

The bridge will be a high-level walkway drawing together three banks and forms part of the New Islington project. The competition was organised by the Royal Institue of British Architects with the support of the Institution of Civil Engineers together with Urban Splash and its partners for New Islington. In total 87 entries were received from practices across the UK, USA, Australia and Europe.