This special issue of The Arup Journal includes the original publication of Ove Arup's 'Key Speech', including a personal postscript not subsequently reprinted.

This special issue of The Arup Journal includes the original publication of Ove Arup's 'Key Speech', including a personal postscript not subsequently reprinted.
Last updated: December 1970
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In July 1970, Ove Arup gave his 'Key speech' at Winchester. In this speech, Ove lays out what the firm means to him and what it should be to our members, setting our the values that define who we are.
In other issues we also look at the inevitability of industrialisation – a review of prospects of concrete system building including examples such as Yorkshire Development Group, Wates, and 12MJespersen system; The new British Embassy in Rome, Italy; Golden Lane – a new local authority housing scheme in the City of London, UK; The design for Dunlop Speedaway – an elevated enclosed pedestrian conveyor belt system.