News
July 2010
Glass façade design is ‘up front’
at Vinoly's £26m Colchester Arts Centre
Construction of the facade has been completed on time and within
budget, to the delight of main contractor Mace.
>> Click
here to download the News Release
>> Read
The Architects' Journal article
May 2010
World Architecture Festival
MW article on World
Architecture Festival highlights was published in Project
Russia: International Journal on Architecture, March 2010
issue.
Architectural Record
An article in the Architectural
Record, May 2010 issue is featuring 150
Cheapside Bridge.
Review of Tickets project
MW's technical review of the Tickets Office in New York was published
in Project Russia: International Journal on Architecture, March
2010.
Science Year 2011
Teesdale project will be featured
in Science Year 2011, published in August by World Book Inc, Chicago
based publisher. Science Year is a reference book, which features
the most important researches, changes, and discoveries in the
rapidly evolving world of science.
Modern Glass Conservatory Extension
New images have been received on the luxury property
extension in Highgate, London.
>> Click here to view the
project
April 2010
Royal Festival Hall
During the refurbishment of the Royal Festival Hall,
Malishev Wilson were responsible for the design of the structural
glass of two glass lift shafts, working with CMF, specialist aluminum
manufacturer, and Fusion glass, One within the main lobby of the
building and one externally at the rear of the theatre providing
disabled access.
They are both scenic lift shafts comprised of specially designed
bespoke aluminium extruded sections and structurally bonded glass.
There is also a patterned glass enclosure to the lift motor room
on the roof.
Recently, As a centrepiece of the Chorus festival, Southbank
Centre has invited artist Martin Creed, Winner of the Turner Prize
in 2001, to create a version of his Work No. 409 specially for
the glass lift, in which visitors' journeys will be accompanied
by the recorded voices of Voicelab singers, rising as the lift
rises and descending as it falls. For this live launch, to help
reveal and explore the work, some of those singers attempt to
re-create it live under Martin Creed's guidance.
December
2009
New lightweight crown on historic tower given
the OK
This striking looking building (Artist's impression
on the right) is an old Martello Tower at Bray, on the East coast
of
Ireland, one of many coastal forts erected around the
world during the Napoleonic Wars.
It used to be owned by a popular Irish entertainer, who installed
a 8.5m diameter glass canopy on top. The current owner decided
to replace the glass roof with something more elegant and MWE
were called in by London-based architect Jones & Lambell to
assist.
With our expertise in the use of structural glass, we were able
to design a lightweight steel supporting structure.
Plans have now been approved and the work on a detailed design
solution is in hand. We propose to use arched steel frame with
compression and tension rings to minimise the amount of steelwork
and maximise transparency. Lateral stability and bracing is provided
by the structural use of glass.
August
2009
World Architecture Festival Award 2009
Malishev Wilson Engineers are delighted to announce
that one of our projects - the structural design of an 18
m glass walkway in the foyer of a prestigious new office building
in the City of London - has been shortlisted for an award at the
World Architecture
Festival in Barcelona, taking place on November 4 - 6. Both
partners will be attending the conference.
April
2009
Malishev Wilson made structural engineers for
€9m student accommodation building in Paris
Malishev Wilson Ingénierie (MWI) in France have
been appointed structural design engineers for a € 9 million
project to provide a six-storey accommodation building
for university researchers and students, in the ZAC (Zone d’Aménagement
Concerté) redevelopment scheme at Rungis in the XIIIth
arondissement of Paris.
The building will have 4,600 sq m of habitable floor space, comprising
100 apartments for students within the first three storeys and
a further 100 flats in the top three floors. An open air atrium
is contained within the structure.
April
2009
MWE celebrates 5 years of international practice
Tempus fugit or ‘Time flies’, to paraphrase
the Roman poet Virgil. And how the last five years have gone by
quickly for us at Malishev Wilson Engineers – since we first
opened our consulting engineering practice in February 2004!
Working from our two offices in London and Paris, we have since
then completed a highly interesting variety of structural engineering
design briefs. We are currently kept busy on a number of equally
challenging commissions, both in the UK and overseas.
April
2009
Coloured glass walls are design feature for showroom
staircase
MWE have designed the coloured glass walls for this
new staircase in the London showroom and offices of fashionable
Danish textile manufacturer Kvadrat. The walls are made using
a series of 4.2m-high by 1.2mwide laminated glass panels, fixed
at basement slab level and laterally re-strained at the stringer
and handrail levels. Architects are Adjaye Associates and specialist
glazing contractor is Barrett’s Glass and Glazing of London.
>> New
Kvadrat showroom (Wallpaper magazine)
February
2009
The PLYLAM staircase
We are delighted to offer our new product developed
by us over the last few years inspired by development work with
Architects who are constantly searching for new ideas and design
solutions. This product was also the result of a fruitful collaboration
with some of the UK’s best known timber and glass manufacturers.
PLYLAM achieves what is says ‘on the tin’, it is glue
laminated sheets of plywood which are precision-cut to our drawings
to form the stair. A combination of special glues, plywood and
application techniques makes it a very strong, solid section of
timber which can span as a simple beam between the supports.
What is special about this product, apart from its strength, is
that carefully sanded faces of the treads reveal individual veneers
of ply which, over the width of the stairs, form a cascade of
parallel lines which follow the contour of the stair treads, creating
an interesting visual effect.
The PLYLAM staircase could be supplied in it’s natural timber
colours or stained to the architect’s/client’s specification,
to make it darker if required. The staircase is also supplied
with a structural glass balustrade which also forms part of the
structure. If required, the balustrade can be designed and fitted
to both sides of the staircase.
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The
PLYLAM staircase
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