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Dating to the 13th century, St Mary’s Witnesham appointed Stowmarket Glass to install new frameless glazing between the original stone arches of the church. Grade One Listing gives a certain edge to any building refurbishment project, even more so when it’s a church within yards of your parents’ home and the one you got married in. This, however, didn’t affect...
Solarlux recently designed, delivered and installed a duo of bespoke cero sliding door installations to complete the external aspects of Titlarks House, a £15 million, five-bedroom development in Sunningdale, Surrey. Cero is a versatile product with limitless design possibilities, offering ceiling-high glazing (with doors of 15m² surface area) and is the ultimate glazing option to maximise visible light transmission without...
When teachers at a Cheshire primary school were unable to use their recently installed windows, K2 Aluminium Systems and the Glazerite UK Group replaced them, making them fit for use. Though Veka profiles had been specified for the original install, the contractor had used another system. This had resulted in bowed sashes and inoperative windows, as well as window screen...
Architectural glazing systems by Kawneer were used inside Icon Outlet at The O2. Two types of Kawneer curtain walling – AA100 zone-drained and SSG (structurally silicone glazed) – feature alongside series 190 heavy-duty commercial entrance doors on the 210,000ft2 premium urban outlet inside The O2 on the Greenwich Peninsular in London. They form the shopfronts within the £69 million complex, which...
An unloved and uninspiring 1970s office block in Bristol’s Redcliffe harbourside conservation area was transformed into a stylish contemporary apartment development featuring Aluk’s 58BW and 58BD window and door systems. The project at Redcliffe Place in Bristol is part of an award winning scheme by Change Real Estate, which has also included the refurbishment of six adjoining Georgian townhouses, previously...
Fifty-four Spectus white vertical sliding windows with through horn detailing, including 14 arched vertical sliders, were installed in a prestigious refurbishment project at Foxhill House, Chester. Foxhill House is a substantial Italianate house originally built for the Archdeacon of Chester. It is set in 70 acres of Cheshire woodland, which incorporates an arboretum containing several species of rare plants and...
When Manchester’s city councillors backed a plan to create a £3.5 million glazed link pavilion between the Manchester Town Hall extension and the adjacent Central Library, a crucial aspect of this vision was to permit ease of circulation for the million plus people using this connection every year. Ian Simpson of architects Simpson Haugh and Partners worked with design-led structural...
Tilt-only magnetic blinds from BetweenGlassBlinds were recently installed in every new external window on a refurbished specialist mental health care home in Bushey. The project’s focus was to create a number of specialist flats within the mental health care home facility in Bushey, Hertfordshire. As an increased safety measure, the integral blinds were fitted between specially toughened, clear laminated glass....
By Wojciech Brożyna, Aluprof UK managing director. Unitised curtain wall is normally associated with new high-rise buildings, but in Belfast, Aluprof systems are being used to help transform an existing office block with a completely new building envelope. Located at Wellington Place in the heart of Belfast, the Merchant Square Office Development will offer over 200,000ft2 of Grade A office...
Work has started on site on the installation of two types of curtain walling from Kawneer on Newcastle University’s new building. The £40 million scheme will provide teaching and learning facilities for Sport and Exercise Science, Human Nutrition and the School of Psychology, as well as specialist facilities for the School of Medical Education. The Kawneer AA100 and AA100 SSG...
A faceted on-plan curtain wall completed in Aluk’s SL52 system is the centrepiece of the two-storey community hub known as The Curve in the newly opened Bryn Gaer Place housing development. Aluk’s technical team worked with commercial fabrication partners Vellacine to design the curtain walling for the project in Newport, which also required an external canopy to be attached to...
The Window Company (Contracts) has completed the second and final phase of the CIF (Condition Improvement Fund) funded replacement scheme at Hatcham College, a school for 3-18 year olds in south-east London, after previously completing phase. As previously, The Window Company (Contracts) fitted bespoke timber vertical sliding sash windows on the front elevations of the building to meet the requirements...
The largest hospitality project reportedly undertaken in Ireland has scooped a ‘Winner of Winners’ award sponsored by Geze UK. Adare Manor, a neo Gothic ‘architectural masterpiece’ in County Limerick, took the top category at the AI Specification Awards 2019 for ReardonSmith Architects, Carrson International and Mooney Architectural. Local architect, Michael Healy, also worked on the project. The five-star resort, which...
Weather has had a greater effect on sales than economic numbers, according to former John Lewis managing director Andy Street, alluding to the longstanding challenge for British retailers to keep shoppers coming out on cold, wet and windy days. At one shopping centre at the heart of a Devon town, the solution is architectural: enclosing the previously open-air pedestrianised street...
Architectural glazing systems from Kawneer feature on a pioneering healthcare building with so many strings to its bow it is difficult to know where to start, the company has reported. The new Proton Beam Therapy (PBT) centre at The Christie NHS Foundation Trust in Manchester is not only the first to be built in the UK, it is also the...
Geze UK has provided a capital entrance to a new station that is part of London’s new Crossrail network. Abbey Wood is a pivotal station on the south eastern stretch of the new Elizabeth line and provides overground and underground rail connections to central London and beyond. The new station has been developed by architects Fereday Pollard in organic curved...
Eurocell’s Modus slim sash windows were chosen by sustainable housebuilder when sourcing windows for its new housing development, Artworks in Hitchin, Hertfordshire. The Artworks development was built on the site of the former Hertfordshire Arts College includes 75 stylish one- and two-bedroom apartments, 10 spacious three-bedroom homes and a landscaped courtyard. “Artworks has been an enormous success for Unique Window...
A contract to replace timber box sash windows in the heart of London’s Soho conservation area gave commercial installer The Window Company (Contracts) the opportunity to show off the bespoke nature of its business. Working on behalf of main contractors Osborne Property Services, The Window Company (Contracts) sourced 58 double glazed windows from Dempsey Dyer to replicate the 19th century...
A new residential property built on Passivhaus principles in Devon, located on the site of a former walled garden within a classic Georgian country house estate, has used Promat Systemglas Celare fire resistant glazing system from Promat UK. The contemporary house, named The Walled Garden was designed by McLean Quinlan architects for its self-building owners, and achieved planning permission under...
Welsh aluminium fabricator Dudley’s Aluminium has secured a major contract to support the construction of a new home for the School of Architecture and Built Environment at the University of Wolverhampton. Dudley's is teaming up with ISG after securing the contract worth almost £1 million earlier this year. The fabricator will install both Kawneer standard and fire-capped curtain walling, windows...