A Coroner’s Court can be a strange place, even for those not immediately concerned with the legal procedures that take place in its environs. It represents the final bureaucracy, the serious enquiry, the last of the official forms completed, signed and stamped, and a life considered, and closed. For those immediately concerned in the court […]
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Precast Public Art, Colwyn Bay Waterfront Project, Wales.
Colwyn Bay, in Conwy, North Wales, is seeing a transformation that will pump life-blood into this attractive town and turn the somewhat neglected promenade into an example of what can be achieved by a determined borough council backed by the Welsh Government, The European Regional Development Fund and Visit Wales. The project, which will eventually […]
Columns, beams and spandrels for Cabot Square, Canary Wharf, London.
25 Cabot Square, overlooking the River Thames and West India Middle Dock at Canary Wharf, was originally built in 1991 but recently underwent an extensive redevelopment. Canary Wharf and the surrounding area on the Isle of Dogs is now the financial and insurance centre of London, and the modern glass, steel and concrete buildings […]
The City Centre: A New Identity
A city is defined and recognised by its public spaces. In many cases these are historic, but no city can survive by living only in its own history; public spaces, those places where people meet and interact, need to adapt as the needs of its people change.
Hard Landscaping – Paving Applications
The versatility and durability of concrete make it the material of choice for many designers who are seeking innovative solutions to a common problem; how to make public spaces which are capable of coping with constant heavy use, but which at the same time are attractive and welcoming.
Concrete at Chelsea – Hard Landscaping in Prize-Winning Small Gardens
The list of prize-winners at the 2018 Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea Flower Show has once again demonstrated the vital role hard landscaping plays in contemporary gardens.
A Concrete Dream – Concrete Public Art
The use of concrete as a medium for sculpture has a long history. The artist Henry Moore, for example, made a total of 21 sculptures in concrete in the 1920s and 1930s. He commented that he was attracted to the material because it was cheap, but also because it was becoming increasingly important as a building material and he felt that it had a great future in public art.
The Concrete Seascape
By the end of the sixties, ‘concrete’ was almost a dirty word, calling to mind vistas of cheap, grey mass-produced buildings, featureless and drab. Now, in the hands of experts, it is an artist’s material.
Lime Street station project, originally opened by HM Queen Elizabeth II, gets a new lease of life with Evans by Shay Murtagh bespoke concrete.
On Friday 9th March 2018, Liverpool lime street Station unveiled a rejuvenated gift to the public. This was the recreation of what has become known as “The Bullring” Mural with new concrete panels by Evans Precast Concrete. Originally designed by Stephen Broadbent in 1999, this structure marked the rehousing of families from St Andrews Garden […]
Lime Street Station project, originally opened by the queen gets a new lease of life with Evans by Shay Murtagh bespoke concrete
On Friday 9th March 2018, Liverpool lime street Station unveiled a rejuvenated gift to the public. This was the recreation of what has become known as “The Bullring” Mural with new concrete panels by Evans Precast Concrete. Originally designed by Stephen Broadbent in 1999, this structure marked the rehousing of families from St Andrews Garden tenements […]