Building environments

Opened to the public in 2011, the Museum of Liverpool is one of the world’s leading city history museums and the largest newly created national museum in the UK for over a hundred years. Situated alongside the Three Graces in Liverpool’s historic waterfront setting, it will showcase Liverpool’s social history and popular culture while setting a global benchmark for other museums of its kind.

Located in the southern part of Turin in the Lingotto district, the venue, features a 400m oval ice track and is the work of Buro Happold, HOK SVE and Studio Zoppini Associati, winners of an international tender for the project.

London is leading the charge towards low carbon energy with the Mayor’s Energy and Carbon Mitigation Strategy. The strategy aims to deliver a truly significant 25% of the capital’s energy from decentralised sources by 2031, and we were commissioned to thoroughly investigate the best possible options to help achieve this milestone in the fight against climate change.

Comprehensive sustainability design strategies earned Torre Iberdrola a LEED Platinum rating, the first in Europe for a high rise structure.

Buro Happold will be attending the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) 2013 International Conference - Height and Heritage. The event will include the launch of the CTBUH Tall Building reference book which Buro...

The Coop’s new Manchester HQ recognised once again for its outstanding sustainability credentials

Delivering clean and reliable water supplies in urban environments is a major challenge that many African nations are facing today. In small towns across Malawi the current problem is not actually the supply itself but how to...

Buro Happold and Chadwick International eliminate the need for air-conditioning in the work place by creating a low cost, low carbon space for Xchanging plc in the academic city of Shimoga, 280kms north west of Bangalore, an energy breakthrough for India.

Buro Happold, working in partnership with Philips Lighting, PWBMEDIA and Colliers International, has founded a professional marketing group (CMG) focused on the promotion of sustainable marketing in construction and...

The Gulf region faces a massive challenge in balancing economic and resource consumption growth against the threat of climate change and finite global resource availability. It can be said that living in the Gulf is living on...

Buro Happold and Schmidt Hammer Lassen have won an international design competition for a new culture centre and library in Karlshamn, Sweden. The new state of the art cultural centre will include a range of facilities...

Buro Happold is thrilled to announce that the consultancy has been voted the top structural engineer and the number two services engineer in Building Design’s WA100 survey, completed by leading architectural...

BahnCard 25 mobil plus combines multi-modal mobility service on one card

Buro Happold’s Dr Robert Cooke, already a well known personality in the industry in the Middle East, is the proud winner of the MEP Engineer of the Year for 2012.  Rob was recognised for his significant contribution

Buro Happold’s Agnieszka Szymczyk has continued the trend of winning in the Middle East by being recognised as the Young MEP Engineer of the Year for 2012. This follows on from Mike Slessor’s win last year. Agnieszka h

It seems highly appropriate, from a personal perspective, that at this moment I find myself at the flagship event of the Council on Tall Building’s and Urban Habitat: the CTBUH’s 9th World Congress in Shanghai. The event takes...

Alasdair leads our sustainability team in London and has worked at Buro Happold since 2005. How many in the team? 14 including myself and five PHD students What are you working on...

The Heartlands Project will bring together sound sustainable design principles to showcase a low carbon development and be a leader of sustainability in the UK through celebration of its heritage and being a catalyst for regeneration

Located in the Diplomatic Quarter on the northwest perimeter of Riyadh stands Tuwaiq Palace, a complex originally designed as a diplomatic club but now used by the Saudi government as a hospitality centre. The demands of the...

Elegantly placed in the rural Arkansas landscape, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is a series of seven concrete, glass and wood pavilions set along a stream bed. Within the complex are permanent and temporary galleries, a library, meeting areas, an auditorium, indoor and outdoor areas for public events, sculpture gardens and walking trails.

The Hawaii Preparatory Academy Energy Laboratory is the third project in the world to receive “Living” status under the Living Building Challenge, showcasing a cost-effective passive design approach that facilitates...

Originally built in 1974, the Forum Steglitz shopping centre is situated in one of Berlin’s busiest multi-functional shopping and service areas. With a footfall of approximately 10 million visitors a year the shopping centre also...

In March 2007, the Tourist Development and Investment Company of Abu Dhabi announced that a new Louvre Museum would be completed in the city of Abu Dhabi. The new museum’s dramatic domed roof is undoubtedly the strongest feature...

The new Riverside Museum, Scotland’s Museum of Transport and Travel, is located on a dramatic site at the point where two rivers, the Clyde and the Kelvin meet, close to Glasgow Harbour. As well as providing a permanent home for collections not previously on public display, the new museum exhibits the contents of the old Glasgow Museum previously held at Kelvin Hall. Kelvin Hall was the second most visited attraction of its type in the UK, with half a million visitors a year, so the new Riverside Museum is well placed to become a world-class cultural destination.