Renovating the new – in keeping with the old
When a 13-year-old orangery proved less resilient than the 300-year-old oak framed country house it was attached to, a full renovation was called for, including a replacement glass roof.
The work on the 30ft orangery,...
Technal helps tame ‘Brutalist’ Park Hill
The award-winning regeneration of the Brutalist-inspired Béton House, part of the iconic Grade II-listed Park Hill housing estate Sheffield, into student accommodation features Technal aluminium windows, doors and curtain walling.
Originally completed in 1961, Park...
Shanghai sliders
Sliding door hardware from P C Henderson was specified for the Intercontinental Shanghai Hongqiao NECC, a luxury hotel built within the city’s new National Exhibition and Convention Centre (NECC).
The brief required a sliding door...
Pyroguard chosen for Paris’s leaning towers
Pyroguard Protect toughened fire safety glass has been specified for what is said to be ‘one of the most daring architectural creations ever imagined in Paris’: Tours Duo.
Due to be completed at the end...
Plan to save £2.8m a year of energy
Work is underway at the Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham, where Senior Architectural Systems is undertaking one of its largest retrofit contracts to date, replacing over 18,000sqm of existing windows with its SPW600 system.
The replacement...
Recycled aluminium contributed to BREEAM VG
Hydro Circal 75R, which uses a minimum of 75% post-consumer recycled aluminium, was used by Technal for the curtain walling, windows and doors systems in the first Enterprise Zone office development at Loughborough University...
Senior knows the angles for the hexagonal Octagon
Senior Architectural Systems’ SF52 aluminium curtain wall system was used to create the new facade of the historic Octagon Theatre in Bolton, Greater Manchester.
The 60s-built theatre recently reopened following a complete refurbishment. Designed by...
Stedek and Residence in 71 Old Penk
Developers of three eco-friendly homes in Staffordshire called on fabricator Stedek and The Residence Collection to help achieve the properties’ thermal efficiency.
‘71 Old Penk’ in Cannock includes 44mm triple-glazed Residence 7 windows, capable of...
60-minute fire rating at rural life museum
Promat Systemglas was chosen for the replacement of a large seven-metre long multi-pane window as part of a refurbishment project at Scotland’s National Museum of Rural Life in East Kilbride.
Working with Hoskins Architects, main...
Spectus Flush gives ali look at Sheffield social project
An exposed hill-top location called for demanding specifications when 300 Spectus Flush Tilt & Turn windows were chosen for a social housing development of 38 one and two-bedroom flats in in Cricket Hill Road,...
