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Steel frames a yarn
An irregular-shaped building with a folding origami-style roof is being built to house the Great Tapestry of Scotland. Martin Cooper reports on a project which …
Showing off the past
Accommodating many of Doncaster’s historical relics, a new steel-framed cultural hub has also been designed to surround and exhibit a retained Edwardian …
AD 435: Beams supporting precast planks: checks in the temporary condition
The purpose of this note is to remind designers of their responsibility for basing their design on a safe method of erection. This is particularly necessary if …
Steel at home
A residential scheme in Liverpool’s creative and digital quarter is using a steel framing solution due to the material’s spanning qualities and ability …
Retail mall goes undercover
A £75M transformation of intu Trafford Centre’s Barton Square is in full swing, as a new glazed roof and dome now span the previously open mall. Martin …
Steel takes to the stage
A steel-framed commercial building forms one of the main elements of £750M mixed-use development in Shoreditch that also includes the remains of a …
Capital regeneration
Numerous column grid patterns, requiring hundreds of tonnes of transfer structures, are helping to create a large retail-led mixed-use scheme in central …
Inspired design
A number of challenges have been overcome to erect a steel-framed student accommodation scheme that shares a constrained site with a Grade-A listed church …
Award: The Ordsall Chord Viaduct
The Ordsall Chord Viaduct includes the first network arch bridge to be built in the UK, and the first asymmetric (tapering) network arch anywhere in the world. …
Award: V&A’s Exhibition Road Quarter, London
The most significant work undertaken at the V&A museum for over 100 years, this development’s centrepiece provides a large column-free underground …
