‘Engaging with the natural world’ at Kew Gardens
Described as ‘a mix between Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and a nature-led laboratory’, the new Family Kitchen & Shop at Kew Gardens, uses Cortizo aluminium window, door and façade systems fabricated by A...
Outdoors comes in at McCartney’s LIPA
A 160sqm structurally-glazed rooflight has helped to turn an outdoor courtyard into an indoor performance space at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts created by a multi-million pound refurbishment of Sir Paul McCartney’s former...
‘Re-use rather than recycle’ at Woolwich Arsenal
The ongoing transformation of Woolwich Arsenal has seen steel window specialist ASWS undertake a number of contracts within Woolwich Works, a creative quarter within the formerly derelict munitions factory.
In Buildings 19 and 41, ASWS...
Elephant Park, London
Aluminium windows, doors and curtain walling systems from Wicona were used on the Highwood Gardens and Orchard Gardens phases of the Elephant Park development set to deliver nearly 3,000 homes in London’s Elephant and Castle by...
Senior’s back at the movies with the Arc, Daventry
Senior Architectural Systems has completed another cinema project, providing a ‘welcoming frontage’ at the new Arc Cinema in Daventry, part of the wider £12.5m regeneration of the town centre.
The frontage was created using a...
Safe removal of lead paint at the Empress Club
Safe and careful removal of legacy lead paint was paramount when Associated Steel Window Services was called on to take part in the restoration of the former Empress Club in London’s Dover Street on...
Care home conservatory restored with Leka Warm Roof
An ageing conservatory at a care home in Plymouth has been made habitable again with a refurbishment including 16.5m X 4.2m Leka Warm Roof fabricated by Boringdon Plastics.
The conservatory, with expansive views from the...
AluK at Torfaen Learning Zone, Cwmbran
The newly opened £24m Torfaen Learning Zone in Cwmbran features AluK’s SL52 capped, mullion drained curtain walling system, complete with punched open-in windows in the AluK 77IWE casement system.
Part of the Welsh Government’s 21st Century...
Dudley’s reunites with Jones for Ebbw Vale industrial project
Dudley’s Aluminium has again teamed with Jones Brothers (Henllan) on a contract to install install Metal Technology System capped curtain walling, doors and ‘Hi’ windows, as well as automatic doors for a 52,582 sqft...
A nice bit of repeat business – a century on!
Crittall Windows found proof of the value of repeat business as well as the longevity of its products when it was called back to replace the windows it installed 100 years ago in the...
