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40 Years Ago: Separating the Mersey Tunnel
Taken from Building with Steel 1969 In 1935, when the Birkenhead to Liverpool Tunnel under the River Mersey (the Queensway Tunnel) was opened, the total number …
40 Years Ago: An architectural expression of structural steelwork with no conventional fireproofing
Taken from Building with Steel The bare and basic facts of this building are that it is triangular with 18 exposed supporting steel columns in weathering steel …
40 Years Ago: Building with steel
Unusual television studio The building illustrated is clad with 85 tons of sheet lead – chosen for its sound insulating qualities – colour a soft grey. …
40 Years Ago: Prize winning steel bridges
Taken from Building with Steel, 1968 The illustrations on this and the facing page show some of the steel bridges chosen for awards in 1967 by the American …
40 Years Ago: New plant houses have been built ‘inside out’
Taken from Building with Steel 1968 The new exhibition plant and orchid house at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, are structures of unusual shape and …
40 Years Ago: The world’s tallest residential-office building begins to climb
Taken from Building with Steel, 1968 The John Hancock Centre in Chicago has to climb to a height of 1,107ft above ground level before it is complete and …
40 Years Ago: Relieving traffic congestion – re-erectable flyover at Bristol
Taken from Building with Steel, 1968 Bristol Corporation’s re-erectable flyover was opened to traffic in September 1967. It has been erected in the first …
40 Years Ago in BUILDING WITH STEEL
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 …
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 …
40 Years Ago: ‘Back-to-back’ Cantilever Hangar
Taken from Building with Steel, 1968 Aeroplanes get larger and larger, consequently hangars to house them must grow at a similar rate – and this inevitably …
