Amalfi Residences
photo by M.I. Gilmor
Over 50 years ago, a gardener, Joseph Paxton, married metal to glass in the Crystal Palace for London’s Great Exhibition. Today, steel and glass continue to excite architects and challenge engineers and fabricators. In Part One of a series on steel and other materials, John Leckie explores the role of steel and glass.
Transforming an older steel structure on a brownfield site into a modern steel and glass sales and service centre for BMW is a story of reuse of an entire steel building. Being at the bottom of the DVP gives BMW a prime location to display its new models in a very innovative fashion.
Using structural steel framing for upscale condos is not most people’s first thought, but Daria Kachi and Peter Kulba give a convincing argument for why they chose steel for the Amalfi Residences.
Infrastructure replacement is very topical and the demolition and reconstruction of the Rivière-aux-Mulets bridge is an example of a project that only steel could have solved in the time available.
Check out what is going on as there is lots of news to report. This is detailed, as usual, in What’s Cool, What’s Hot, What’s New.
Michael I. Gilmor
President CISC
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