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Interesting design of Rome Departmental Store
From Building with Steel May 1963 In recent years Italian architecture has attracted widespread attention. An interesting example of a contemporary steel …
50 Years Ago: Bowling Alleys
‘ . . . a steel frame was chosen (because) it was the most economical method of spanning such a large area without any intermediate columns and only by using …
50 Years Ago: Structural Steelwork in Newspaper Buildings
In designing the framework of a building to house newspaper plant and offices and in choosing the material to be used in its construction, the designer must …
50 Years Ago: LTE Substation, Elephant & Castle
The comprehensive redevelopment of the Elephant and Castle is a part of the London County Council’s plan for the County. Very broadly, the redevelopment …
50 Years Ago: Steelwork for 150-ft bridge is erected in one weekend
Four hundred tons of structural steelwork for a 150-ft.-long steel bridge over Birmingham’s Inner Ring Road were erected within 34 hours last autumn. The …
50 Years Ago: New Ascot Grandstand
Steelwork was used for the frame of the new Queen Elizabeth II Stand at Ascot, which was opened last June after a construction period of only ten months, …
50 years ago: Cable spinning for the Forth Road Bridge
Taken from Building With Steel, May 1962 On 17 November 1961 the first four wires of the cables on the new Forth Road Bridge were hauled over the tops of the …
50 Years Ago: Building a new factory over an existing one
From Building With Steel, February 1962 A new factory storehouse, intended to replace a smaller building, was partially erected over the existing building …
50 Years Ago: Structural Steelwork for railways
From Building with Steel, November 1961 As the massive modernisation programme of British Railways gathers momentum, the old familiar steam locomotive gives …
50 Years Ago: Overseas Buildings in Steel
From Building with Steel, August 1961
