UNIQUE BUILDING: LORD’S MEDIA CENTRE

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Product Description This work charts the development of one of the most extraordinary buildings of recent times. The Nat West Media Centre at Lords Cricket Ground in London is the world’s first semi-monocoque structure as well as the first building ever to have been made entirely out of aluminium. Future Systems is the cutting-edge architectural firm behind this innovative structure and their collaboration with the engineering and boat building industries has resulted in this universally acclaimed building. Presented in a “diary” format, covering every stage from conception to completion, this book should appeal to architects and engineers as well as those with an interest in Lords Cricket Ground. From the Back Cover “It was with great trepidation and excitement that we embarked on the task of designing a new media centre as there is so much that is eternal and sacred at Lord’s. Our objective was to respect and savour the essential nature of Lord’s at the same time as creating a building that will come to symbolise the most sophisticated and beautiful media centre in the world.”Future Systems competition report, 1995