50 & 20 Years Ago
Designed for Colour Transmission: Yorkshire Television Studios
Yorkshire Television Ltd began as a race against time in the middle of 1967 for on 12 June the company was allotted the new ITV broadcasting contract for the …
Fabricating the Irwell Valley Bridge
The Irwell Valley Bridge is a single span road bridge, over 200 ft long, comprising seven trapezoidal box girders. Each girder was fabricated at the works in …
A ‘Grand Stand’ at Lords
It was in 1814 that Mr T. Lord leased the now famous ground to the Marylebone Cricket Club and the story of Cricket made way for Wisden. This was not the first …
General Post Office Expansion and Composite Construction
The West Central District Office, Holborn, London, and the Postal and Sorting Office in Whitechapel Road, London The West Central District and Eastern District …
A forward looking concept in bridge design
The problem is not an unfamiliar one: an interharbour bridge is to be built as part of an interchange between interstate highways in the United States – in …
New plant houses have been built ‘inside out’
The new exhibition plant house and orchid house at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, are structures of unusual shape and design. The buildings have been …
‘Back-to-Back’ Cantilever Hangar
Aeroplanes get larger and larger, consequently hangars to house them must grow at a similar rate – and this inevitably means greater cost. The Lockheed …
University of York – unusual roof structure
The shape of the new Central Hall at York University is of particular interest in that it differs completely from the traditional contours of university …
Design of two buildings with suspended structures
The structures described in this article are two office tower blocks currently under construction (1967) for the Commercial Union Assurance Co. Ltd. and the …
A tower full of baths
Reprinted from Building with Steel Volume 4 No. 8 November 1967 Six large Victorian houses at Lancaster Gate, London, are being converted into an international …
