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FROM Building with Steel
NOVEMBER 1960

1. Structural steelwork for the south-west face of Passenger Building at London Airport in the early stages of cladding. Some 1,500 tons of steel are being used.
3. Hangar at Orly Airport, Paris. during erection. (Reproduced from Supplement aux Annales de l’Institut Technique du Batiment et des Travaux Publics.)
4. Gatwick is another outstanding British airport where many of the building are built with steel. Illustration shows part of the terminal buildings. Architects, Yorke, Rosenberg and Mardell. Consulting engineers, Frederick Snow and Partners.
5. Looking along the Central Finger at Gatwick Airport.
6. The completed control tower at Ringway, Manchester and extensions to the existing terminal buildings, which are in steel. Architect for Ringway, Mr Leonard C Howitt, MArch, DipTP, DPA, FRIBA, MTPI, the Manchester City architect.
7. Terminal buildings at Orly Airport, Paris. Steel is used for many French airport buildings.

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