Anonymous ID: 952db0 July 7, 2022, 8:09 p.m. No.16668639   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>0385

>>16668284

If pink building is St. Thomas Hospital's East Wing, I'd say cranes went up circa March 2013 and stayed until at least end 2014

 

St Thomas' Hospital East Wing project, London

 

Steel cure for hospital

The East Wing building at St Thomas’ Hospital has historically been blighted by water ingress. In order to remedy the situation the structure is being reclad with steel and glass.

By Martin Cooper

 

Situated on the south bank of the River Thames, facing the Houses of Parliament, St Thomas’ Hospital has been an important London landmark since moving to its present location in 1871. Originally established in the Middle Ages on a site near London Bridge, it has a long and distinguished history and today St Thomas’ is a world renowned teaching hospital.

 

The appearance of the current site has changed a lot over the years, as many of the original Victorian wards were destroyed during the Second World War and a number of new structures were added in the 1950s and 60s.

 

One of these more recent additions is the concrete framed 13-storey East Wing tower, a building opened in the early 1960s and unfortunately blighted by water penetration for most of its lifetime. To solve this building’s structural problem, transform its appearance and improve the functionality a £27M project is under way that will give the tower a new glazed façade, two atria and a new shape.

 

The project includes the installation of new rooftop steelwork that will support glazing on the western façade (overlooking the Houses of Parliament), while further additions of structural steelwork will infill the T-shaped building with two atria creating an on-plan half diamond-shaped structure.

 

Main contractor ISG’s work also includes restoring the existing building’s exterior slate cladding and teak windows. These elevations will now be essentially interiors, inside the new atria or protected from the elements by the western façade.

 

The East Wing project was procured via a high profile RIBA competition to select an architect and main contractor team that could transform the poorly performing building with a modern cladding solution to enhance its environmental performance, upgrade facilities for patients and staff, and dramatically improve the building’s aesthetics on the capital’s skyline. The 2010 competition was won by a team comprising of ISG and Hopkins Architects, who have since worked closely with Arup to develop their plans for the building. The team started on site in March 2013 and is expected to complete the work by the end of this year.

 

More:

https://www.steelconstruction.info/St_Thomas'_Hospital_East_Wing_project,_London

'''There is a link on the page to a "New Steel Construction article in .pdf for May 2014

Anonymous ID: 952db0 July 8, 2022, 2:53 a.m. No.16670612   🗄️.is đź”—kun

General Research #21048 >>16670601

 

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