Last week I looked at one striking difference between east – west architecture. In Asia and the Middle East, architecture has gone vertical, with the tallest still being the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, at 828 metres. The world’s other top ten tallest buildings are in Shanghai, Mecca, Shenzen, Seoul, Guangzhou, Beijing, Taipei and Shanghai. The […]
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East, west
Architecture creates cityscapes, shaping our towns and cities so that they reflect our corporate and civic aspirations. It’s a design approach that interprets the past to create new buildings with contemporary relevance. But within that philosophy of architecture as a mirror to the future is a new dynamic. Because there seems to be one not-so-subtle […]
Past present
The UK market for passive fire protection products is estimated to be worth around £650m. In the last couple of years, the market has grown by some 2%. This was a period of recovery for the overall construction industry, especially in the education, commercial, retail and leisure sectors. However, looking ahead, forecasts suggest a more […]
Preserving our heritage
Our business at Wrightstyle is the design, fabrication and installation of advanced glazing systems, for new build, refurbishment or heritage glazing projects. Such is our reputation that our systems can be found in buildings from the UK to the USA, and from Saudi Arabia to New Zealand. It’s a mark of the trust our customers […]
Art and glass
We are experts in structurally glazed curtain walling. Which is just as well, as we’ve been much involved with Crossrail, the London transportation project. We’ve worked on six out of the 40 stations on the Elizabeth line. These were Bond Street, Farringdon, Liverpool Street, Whitechapel and Woolwich. We’ve also fabricated very large arches for Paddington […]
