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world news

Large-scale Building Exhibition

in Hanover

ONE of the largest ever indoor international building exhibitions is planned in the Fairgrounds at Hanover. West Germany, from January 21 to 29, 1967. Knowin

as Constructa II. the exhibition will present an all-em- bracing display of building materials, components, systems and forms of construction.

A prospectus setting out the scope of the exhibition may be obtained from Deutsche Messe-und Ausstellungs- AG. Hannover-Messegelande. Stand space has already

been booked by some 700 firms.

A programme of conferences will be held in con- junction with the exhibition. Experts from various countries will speak on problems of town planning, urban development, supply and disposal services, mechanisation and organisation in building.

Tallest in the City of London

BRITANNIC House. Moorfields, the new 35-storey head offices of The British Petroleum Co., Ltd.. has now reached its full height of 395 ft. The tallest block in the City of London, it is due for completion by the end of this year.

The complete project consists of the tower block, a linked seven-storey block and a series of basements ex- tending down to 58 ft. below street level. Except for the lowest basement floor, which is partly precast, the sub- structure is constructed of conventional in situ reinforced concrete. The tower core, the ground slab, and the ex- ternal columns with cross walls at the top of the tower,

Britannic House, now at its full height of 395 ft.

form the main resistance to wind load. They are constructed of in-situ reinforced concrete, sliding shutter- ing being used to form the core walls above street level, Staircases in the tower are precast.

The seven-storey block is built of in-situ reinforced concrete and corresponds to the main tower in ap- pearance, except that the latter has projecting concrete piers cased in stainless steel, tapering to the top.

About 2.200 people will work in the completed building, which will be linked to the existing BP offices nearby by an underground tunnel and to the adjoining Barbican redevelopment by an overhead walkway.

The architects are Joseph, F. Milton Cashmore and

These two circular and two gallery buildings, being erected at 22nd Street, Chicago, for the Chicago Housing Authority, are

well-known designed by Bertrand Goldberg Associates, architects for the city's

Marina Towers development. The circular Each bed- towers will provide 764 apartments for the elderly and the gallery blocks will contain 746 family dwelling units. room and each living room in the circular blocks, radiates from a central community and services area. The design is described by the architects as a geocentric shell without core. For the windows they claim that the elliptical shape is much more the proper structural form for openings in monolithic concrete than the rectangular shapes which originated with masonry.

Far East Architect & Builder May, 1966

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