CDA at Ecobuild 2012

Copper Development Association will be exhibiting at EcoBuild 20-22 March at ExCeL (London) – Stand N272. Ecobuild is the world’s biggest event for sustainable design, construction and the built environment and the UK’s largest construction event of any kind.

Articles

03/11/2011 / Latest Copper Architecture Forum magazine published

27/10/2011 / Copper architecture and the environment

28/09/2011 / European Architectural Awards Winners Announced

20/06/2011 / Seven projects shortlisted for the 15th European Copper in Architecture Awards

19/06/2011 / Copper - Keeping Disease Away

Video

15th European Copper in Architecture Awards Winners Announced

References

Paradise Street, UK

Located in the Duke Street Conservation Area of Liverpool City centre, at the corner of Hanover Street and School Lane, the building fully occupies its tight triangular site.

CeAL, Centre for Active Learning, University of Gloucestershire, UK

The Centre for Active Learning (CeAL) is an innovative new teaching facility for the University of Gloucester, located within the historic grounds of the Francis Close Hall campus in Cheltenham.

Portcullis House, UK

The new Parliamentary building, located within a World Heritage site next to the Palace of Westminster, is characterised by its distinctive bronze roof form and air handling 'turrets'.

The Queen's Gallery, UK

Built to mark the Golden Jubilee of Her Majesty The Queen in 2002, the new Gallery is a major centre for the visual arts in the heart of London, provided with the most up-to-date museological servies for the conservation and display of works of art of...

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St George's Church, UK

Paul Davis + Partners has completed the restoration of the Grade II Listed St George’s Church in London’s Tufnell Park Conservation Area. The project included an extensive refurbishment programme to return the building to its former use and created a...

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2 Newham's Row, UK

Set in one of South London's historic quarters, this open-plan office building at 2 Newhams Row is a cubic form consisting of two interlocking L-shaped volumes.

De Young Memorial Museum, USA

A new superlative in façade construction was created on the West Coast of America with the unique façade design that we have come to expect of the Herzog & de Meuron team. Never before has so much copper been used to clad a building. Thousands of different-sized and different-shaped classic copper sheets, individually embossed and perforated, cover the façade of the De Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco.

Haarlemmermeer Central Library Culture Building, Netherlands

The Culture Building houses one of the largest concentrations of culture in the Netherlands: a theatre, a pop stage, an art education centre and a library brought together under one undulating roof, aimed to create an open and inviting iconic arts centre, which at the same time gives enough space for the individual organisations to express themselves and be recognised as independent entities.

Ron Cooke Hub, University of York, UK

Building Design Partnership were commissioned in May 2007 by the University of York to design the Cluster 1 buildings that form the first phase of the new Heslington East campus. The Ron Cooke Hub will be the public face of the Heslington East development. It is the building through which visitors from outside the University will enter the Cluster and as such is the most significant location on the site.