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The Brunswick, formerly known as the Brunswick Centre, is a Grade II Listed, mixed use, low rise, high density urban development within a concrete and glass megastructure. Comprising retail units, cinema, social housing and car parking, the Brunswick is one of London’s iconic buildings from the 1960s and is a 2008 winner of The Civic Trust Awards.

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.

The £350m development of the Trinity Leeds shopping centre marks the first major retail development since the UK economy slump and has provided jobs for the construction sector and future jobs for the retail sector helping to regenerate the heart of Leeds.

A shimmering, transparent form sitting on the famous Lansdowne Road site, the Aviva Stadium offers Dublin both a visually spectacular venue and the first truly ‘responsive’ stadium building of its type in the world, its form and...

This Thursday (20 June)post graduate students at the Polytechnic of Milan will be exhibiting their work in TAC (Technically Advanced Construction). The post grads’ work is a response to a brief to create a mock-up of an advanced...

In April, opening day visitors to Partners Healthcare's new Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston were greeted with light-filled, state-of-the-art facilities, which the Boston Globe commended as "emblematic of the...

On Monday June 10th Buro Happold took home the top prize in two categories at the 2013 SEAoNY Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards; Yale University School of Management won the New Buildings over $100M category while the...

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

The specialized expertise of Buro Happold’s New York facades team was on full display as the 408 ft steel spire set to crown One World Trade Center was hoisted atop the tower.

Renowned expert in lightweight structures Matthew Birchall has become the newest member of Buro Happold LLP. Matthew, an engineering and architecture graduate, joined the consultancy in 2006 and has been instrumental in building...

The base build construction for the new £188 million Library of Birmingham is now reaching completion, following the final commissioning of the energy and life safety systems. With the inspiring aspiration...

Buro Happold was part of a multidisciplinary team that celebrated the official opening of the new double LEED Platinum facility for GlaxoSmithKline at Philadelphia's Navy Yard with a ribbon cutting ceremony on Saturday, April...

Buro Happold New York's Structures and Facades team's innovative structural and façade design strategies have been utilized on projects around the world and the team's expertise has recently been acknowledged in a number of...

Buro Happold’s New York office is providing structural engineering services for an iconic 49 story, mixed use development in Vancouver, British Columbia, that is set to redefine the concept of a typical high rise. Designed by...

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

The news that Dubai Municipality will soon mandate the use of wind tunnel testing for tall...

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...

Traditionally, glass has been the material choice for atriums and skylights in buildings as a way to admit natural light.

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...

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.

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...

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...