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Civic centre kickstarts renaissance
A new steel framed office for Rotherham council is part of the first phase of the South Yorkshire town’s wide ranging regeneration plans. Big plans are afoot …
Town centre revamp begins with steel
Forming part of a large town centre regeneration scheme, Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council’s new civic office building continues apace, with the steel …
Inclined façades dictate the use of steel
With four inclined elevations, Canada Water’s new architecturally driven library has made use of steel columns for flexibility and ease of construction. A …
New life for town centre
Part of a multi-million pound regeneration scheme and spread over two sites, the Wigan Life Centre is a multi-function facility set to invigorate the borough. …
Activating thermal mass
A steel frame has proven to be the answer for a multi-use building where natural ventilation and thermal mass needed to be incorporated in order to reduce …
Steel aids civic pride
A new civic centre for Woolwich is the most prominent scheme currently under way as part of the area’s large scale regeneration. Martin Cooper reports from …
New home for historic Bodleian Library
Millions of books from Oxford University’s historic Bodleian Library are to be housed in a new steel framed storage facility in Swindon. A ground breaking …
Landmark conference centre to boost business tourism
Visually outstanding and structurally challenging, Dublin’s National Conference Centre is set to put Ireland on the global conferencing map, writes Martin …
40 Years Ago: A panorama of steel
Taken from Building with Steel, 1968 One dictionary definition of panorama is ‘continuous passing scene’ and this pretty well sums up structural steelwork …
Steel writes a new chapter for Tyneside
Newcastle’s new City Library incorporates a complex steel and glass design and is set to be a stand-out civic building when it opens in Summer 2009. …
