Culture

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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.

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

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...

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.

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,...

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...