Culture

Cultural spaces challenge the average, the everyday and the ordinary: often iconic and invaluable to their communities, cultural buildings need to engage, accommodate and inspire visitors from across the globe. Our work in culture exemplifies the meeting of artistic vision with engineering flair delivering projects that are fascinating, striking and technically accomplished.

Our commitment to creative thinking, to investigating the new and the unexpected and to pioneering new technology makes us the ideal partner for developing ground breaking cultural spaces. With the benefit of decades of experience combined with a dedication to innovation, our work in the sector explores the future of new buildings and unlocks the potential in historic ones. From designing the seating in theatres and developing the perfect acoustic performance, to modelling visitor flow and improving access, our approach is holistic.

Our cultural spaces can be inspirational, personal, invigorating, epic…but always remarkable, both artistically and commercially.


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Buro Happold

Project

23/04/2012

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.

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Buro Happold

News

13/05/2013

Battery Park’s SeaGlass Carousel, which received the final panel to its nautilus-inspired enclosure at a topping off ceremony on April 18, celebrates New York’s past and future. It’s both a reminder of the original New York City...

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Buro Happold

News

10/05/2013

A gravity-fed waterfall and 'raintubes' that reveal the journey of water from roof to cistern, a building dashboard that displays data about water capture and reuse, and an integrated system that diverts 100% of site runoff for...

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Buro Happold

Blog

25/04/2013

On 19 April 2013 Buro Happold hosted more than 80 guests in our new Beijing office in Jian Wai SOHO. The Beijing business was launched publicly in July 2011 with the announcement of our role on the Jin Bao Street redevelopment...

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News

08/04/2013

Last fall, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences unveiled its plans for the new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. The announcement represented a significant step towards realizing the organization’s longstanding dream...

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Blog

08/04/2013

The construction of Bath Abbey began in 1499 and is regarded as one of England’s finest medieval churches

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Happold Consulting

Project

04/04/2013

Working closely with architects John Thompson and Partners, we prepared a detailed economic and spatial strategy to support a masterplan for the redevelopment of Dalian’s eastern coastal periphery. The proposed redevelopment, adjacent to the CBD of Dalian City, is substantial in scale incorporating former docks, shipyards, commercial zones, areas of natural beauty and a large petrochemical plant. The economic study involved significant data collection, analysis and interpretation of primary and secondary data sources, in order to best appraise alternative uses for the site.

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Buro Happold

News

29/03/2013

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...

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Buro Happold

News

11/03/2013

A number of Buro Happold projects received recognition in the recently announced UK Civic Trust awards for 2013. In all seven Buro Happold projects were announced as outright winners of the award with three receiving...

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Buro Happold

News

25/01/2013

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...

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Buro Happold

News

12/12/2012

Chinese opera centre will be West Kowloon cultural district’s first arts venue

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Buro Happold

News

04/12/2012

Buro Happold’s specialist consultants work with Wilkinson Eyre Architects to deliver refurbishment and expansion of Wellcome Collection

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Happold Consulting

Project

15/11/2012

Ad’Diriyyah represents a series of stunning historic oasis settlements situated in Wadi Hanifah, itself an area of outstanding natural beauty, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s capital city, Riyadh. The site is both the location for the founding of modern Saudi Arabia as well as the birth of the Wahab school of Islam (the “Oneness Movement”).

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Happold Consulting

Project

15/11/2012

Jeddah is facing the challenge of sustainably managing its growth for the coming 20 years. During this period, the city will be required to create nearly 1.2 million new jobs and develop around 50,000 new homes per every year.

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Buro Happold

News

06/11/2012

Buro Happold scores two triumphant wins at the recent Institution of Structural Engineers Awards.  

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Buro Happold

News

11/10/2012

Buro Happold projects took three of the main categories at last night’s British Construction Industry awards (BCIA)

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Blog

11/10/2012

Buro Happold goes beyond engineering: we also have a dedicated team of designers and artists who use their creativity to bring our technical concepts to life. We recently produced a limited edition range of covers for our sector...

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Buro Happold

Project

26/07/2012

The Cutty Sark cuts a dramatic outline on the bank of the River Thames; an iconic reminder of Britain’s proud maritime history and the importance of the sea in the country’s economic development. Following a colourful past, then years of neglect, a comprehensive programme of conservation began in 2004, and has seen the biggest overhaul of the Grade I listed landmark for 50 years. In addition, plans were drawn up for the development of a new event venue designed to play a major role in securing an ongoing income which would protect the Cutty Sark for the enjoyment of future visitors for years to come.

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Buro Happold

Project

28/05/2012

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

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Buro Happold

Video

13/05/2012

Buro Happold

Blog

04/05/2012

At last – the Cutty Sark has re-opened and perk of the job, I got to see this ‘grand old lady of the seas’ a day before the Queen and before the general...

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Buro Happold

Video

27/10/2011

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Buro Happold

Project

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

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Buro Happold

Project

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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Buro Happold

Project

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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Buro Happold

Project

11/05/2011

Redefining historical cultural spaces requires a certain set of skills: vision, perception and a delicate touch. The redevelopment of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre included the creation of a 1,030 seat auditorium with a thrust...

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Buro Happold

Video

26/04/2011

New visitor centre for the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. The building is an entrance as well as exhibition and education space for the garden. The structural design has developed through discussion with the architect and other...

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Culture Capability Statement


Sector Director

Buro Happold Stephen

Stephen Jolly

Partner


Regional leaders

UK

Buro Happold Ian

Ian Maddocks

Partner


Northern Europe

Buro Happold Rod

Rod Manson

Partner

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North America

Buro Happold Denzil

Denzil Gallagher

Principal


Asia-Pacific

Buro Happold David

David Littler

Director


Middle East

Buro Happold Oliver

Oliver Plunkett

Partner