Savill Building, Windsor Great Park in United Kingdom

Savill Building, Windsor Great Park that located in United Kingdom, was designed by Glenn Howells Architects. The main feature of the building is its larch gridshell roof, which is clad with green oak. Both the larch and the oak are from The Crown Estate’s own sustainable sources from within the Windsor Estate. It was designed [...]

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New Amsterdam Plein in New York, United States

Designed by UNStudio, New Amsterdam Plein is located in New York, United States. New Yorkers got a real Dutch treat this week with the opening of The New Amsterdam Plein and Pavilion on May 12th. The windmill shaped pavilion, which was gifted to New York from the Kingdom of the Netherlands, celebrates the city’s Dutch [...]

Tags: Agriculture, Amsterdam, Buro Happold, Engineering, Happold, Kingdom of the Netherlands, Lower Manhattan’s Peter Minuit Plaza, New Amsterdam, New York City, Structural engineering, United States, UNStudio, Windmill

Uxbridge Travelodge in London, United Kingdom

Located in London, United Kingdom, Uxbridge Travelodge was designed by Buro Happold. Travelodge, the budget hotel company, have completed their first recycled hotel made out of shipping containers. The 86 containers used in the Uxbridge hotel were prepared in China with plasterboard walls, electrics and bathrooms already in place before being shipped to the UK, [...]

Tags: Business, China, Containerization, Containers, Happold, Hotel, Intermodal container, London, Marketing, recycled hotel, steel containers, Technology, Travelodge, United Kingdom, Uxbridge hotel

WAN Effectiveness Awards in London, United Kingdom

The WAN Effectiveness Awards designed by Editorial is located in  London, United Kingdom.  The WAN Effectiveness Awards, in partnership with global multidisciplinary engineering consultancy Buro Happold, is the first major international competition of its kind, aiming to find the best in architectural design that has profoundly impacted society, transcending the requirements of the client brief [...]

Tags: Engineering, Happold, London, United Kingdom, WAN

Clydebank Swan in Clydebank, United Kingdom

Located in Clydebank, United Kingdom, Clydebank Swan was designed by Buro Happold that has won a civil engineering Saltire Award for their work on the Swan Canopy over the Forth and Clyde Canal pedestrian bridge. The multi-disciplinary practice of consulting engineers took the Project Design award in a scheme that recognises excellence in Civil Engineering [...]

Tags: Architecture, Buro Happold, Clyde Canal, CLYDEBANK SOCIETY, Domes, Happold, London, O2 Arena, Polytetrafluoroethylene, Scotland, steel, steel arms, steel legs, Structural engineering, Tensile architecture, The O2, United Kingdom