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50 Years Ago: A cinema under the stars
First published in BUILDING WITH STEEL, May 1961 All welded steel structure for supporting the cinema screen of a new ‘drive-in’ cinema in Trinidad. Set …
50 Years Ago: A Monitor Roof using Castella Beams
From Building with Steel, May 1961 Castella beams are used to considerable advantage in the roof construction of a very large Design Office which forms part of …
50 Years Ago: Steel for Ecclesiastical Buildings
From Building with Steel, May 1961 Temples and, later, churches were probably the world’s first architect designed buildings. Art flourishes best when …
50 Years Ago: Outstanding Buildings in Steel
Recently completed buildings from Building with Steel, February 1961
50 Years Ago: Steel’s contribution to the Oil and Petro-Chemical Industries
FROM BUILDING WITH STEEL, FEBRUARY 1961 Steel, in one form or another, is used more extensively than any other metal in practically every branch of the oil and …
50 Years Ago: Structural steelwork up on the farm
From Building with Steel, May 1960 Despite the quiet revolution which has turned Britain’s agricultural industry into the most highly mechanised one in the …
50 Years Ago: Structural Steel in the Nuclear Power Industry
Structural steel is marching with the times. Nuclear power stations – virtually unthought of a decade ago – are consuming large quantities of structural …
Eminent post-war buildings in steel
Building with Steel, the BCSA’s ‘informative journal relating to the progress of and developments in the Constructional Steelwork Industry’ was first …
40 Years Ago: 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 …
January 2010 – Steel a success since the ‘swinging sixties’
A magazine’s first issue of the new year is traditionally an occasion for looking forward, but we can be excused for a bit of a backward glance this year …