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11/05/2012

I have been keen to promote timber as an engineering material in China since my first trip to Shenyang where the landscape looks very North European. I was recently sent a brochure from the Singapore based company <link...

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Opinion

08/02/2012

Pigs love it, Glastonbury’s full of it, and it’s a pain to get out of carpets.

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09/01/2012

“Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.”  Charles Kettering, inventor, engineer, businessman. I am often asked what platform or format we work in, to which my usual response is "all of...

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10/11/2011

This month saw the US launch of Happold Consulting, the strategic management arm of international multidisciplinary engineering consultancy Buro Happold. Based in New York, the subsidiary will provide integrated development...

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31/10/2011

Surrounded by 120 wooded acres, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is set to open on 11.11.11. Comprised of a series of eight concrete, glass, and wood pavilions set along two spring-fed ponds in Northwest Arkansas, this...

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27/10/2011

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21/10/2011

Dr Shrikant Sharma to talk about advanced applications of BIM for integrated modelling Dr Shrikant Sharma, computational design expert at international multidisciplinary engineering consultancy Buro Happold is to share...

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21/10/2011

Consultancy wins prestigious annual engineering award in the Office category for the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) International multidisciplinary engineering consultancy Buro Happold announces that the United...

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21/10/2011

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...

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News

12/10/2011

Bring to Light is a free night time public art festival in New York that takes place simultaneously with ‘Nuit Blanche’ events in cities around the world. Inviting emerging and established artists to make site-specific...

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27/09/2011

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.

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News

01/09/2011

Buro Happold’s latest inspirational performance venue The new Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury opens its doors to the public on 4 October, three years after construction started in 2008. The venue will open with a gala...

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27/07/2011

One of our former grad students, Jo is now a well known tensile structures engineer based in our Bath office. So tensile structures – more than just a big tent? GRRR - so much more than just a big tent! Using a...

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30/06/2011

Engineering consultancy wins National Certificate of Recognition for Santa Monica refurb project Buro Happold is celebrating winning a National Certificate of Recognition from the American Institute for Steel (AISC) for...

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31/05/2011

Designed by architect Thomas Edward Collcutt, The Savoy Hotel opened in 1889 as the dream of Richard D’Oyly Carte who funded his world-class hotel venture with the profits from staging Gilbert and Sullivan in the Savoy Theatre...

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27/05/2011

The addition of a stunning roof to the Mediacite retail centre in Liège was a late addition to the architectural design, added by a brave client with the vision and determination to create a landmark for the community. Mall...

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27/05/2011

The superb 4-star Mint Hotel is the centrepiece for a revitalised Granary Wharf development in Leeds city centre. By incorporating stylish, elegant yet cost-effective solutions, the solution satisfied the hotel’s need for maximum...

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26/05/2011

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 by 2012. The new museum’s dramatic domed roof is undoubtedly the strongest...

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26/05/2011

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.

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26/05/2011

Inspired by folklore, the Polish Pavilion has a striking façade that features a number of inclined surfaces designed to resemble folded paper, cut out in a folk art design. Reflecting the main theme of the Expo – ‘Better City,...

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26/05/2011

Dating from the 19th Century. Clarence Dock was originally constructed to transport goods to and from the centre of Leeds, particularly coal from the collieries in Wakefield and Rothwell, which was then distributed to heavy...

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26/05/2011

The site of the Sabah Al Ahmad Sea City development is adjacent to the Arabian Gulf coastline, 85km south of Kuwait City. From two environmentally impoverished hyper saline creeks, an ecologically rich waterway city is growing....

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