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This issue of The Arup Journal looks at folded plate roofs with examples from West Germany, USA, England, Rhodesia, Kenya, Ghana, and South Africa and Fenchurch Street – a suspended frame building in London.
This issue of The Arup Journal looks at folded plate roofs with examples from West Germany, USA, England, Rhodesia, Kenya, Ghana, and South Africa and Fenchurch Street – a suspended frame building in London.
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In this first issue of 1967, David Dowrick begins the year with a look at folded plate roofs, drawing on examples from across the world.
We then move on to look at 13-15 Fenchurch Street - the Kleinwort-Benson Building - where we were commissioned to advise on (i) the feasibility and (ii) the method of construction of the post-stressed concrete umbrella substituting the original high yield steel umbrella at the top of the building.
