TEDX CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY
MARCH 2019
One of our associates, Tom McGlynn will be giving a talk as part of the TEDx Cambridge University Conference 2019 on the 16th March. It is an annual, independently organised event which aims to spark discussion and create a platform for the sharing of new and important ideas within the local community. Tom’s talk titled ‘There is Music in Every Building’ will be looking at the parallels between architecture and music. Please click here to visit the TEDx website.
THE WELCOME BUILDING
SEPTEMBER 2017
The Welcome Building in Bishop Auckland consists of a new viewing tower and central ticketing hall for the The Auckland Project. It acts as an access point and gateway to the wider site whilst also giving views over the town and landscape setting. The tower – a timber framed structure – is now well under way on site.
The building team has worked tirelessly and with the highest level of precision, to build the in-situ concrete lift shaft. Working from the ground up seemed to take an age.
Meanwhile, the enormous larch glulam beams have been carefully crafted and manually grey-oiled in the joiner’s workshop.
The frames are now being lifted into position on site and suddenly the building can be seen. Almost in an instant. As if the past four years had happened in the blink of an eye.
We are so excited and proud – even – to see this fantasy project becoming real at last. But with completion on the horizon, time seems to now move all too fast.