50 & 20 Years Ago
Cross Harbour Tunnel: Hong Kong
One of the most interesting submerged tube tunnels to have been built in recent years was the cross-harbour tunnel at Hong Kong. It is the longest of its …
Structural Steel Design Awards 1973
This is the fifth year of the Structural Steel Design Awards sponsored by the British Steel Corporation and the British Constructional Steelwork Association …
The Humber Bridge
Of the Severn Bridge Sir Misha Black has said it is ‘the finest artefact of the present age and no work of any contemporary painter or sculptor was its …
System Building at Milton Keynes
Industrial buildings are essential to Milton Keynes and have been intensively studied in the Development Corporation. The results are unusual and interesting …
From here to infinity
This article was originally conceived as a fantasy on long spans. Although it was intended as light relief it was thought that it might encourage lateral …
Cased at ground level
Money has been saved and construction time reduced on this new recreation centre at Burnley by casing the beams on the ground. Mr. H. Westbrook, a director of …
Catalogued Car Centre
Previous articles and one issue of Building with Steel (No. 6, Feb 1971) have shown how proprietary systems of construction can be adapted to many types of …
Saved with Steel
Steel has played an essential part in the recent restoration at York Minster – providing proof of the adaptability of steelwork whilst maintaining minimum …
ERF Service Centre
Middlewich is in an area subject to severe settlement caused by the salt workings. This Sevice Building had to be designed to accept the settlement therefore …
Frontage made young
Introduction For its size there can be few cities in the country that are more richly endowed with old buildings than Exeter. It is a town of bustling shopping …
