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Moor Street Station |
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The original Moor
street station was built around 1904 and became a working station in 1908
with refurbishment being undertaken during the 1930’s, however following
years of neglect the station closed to the public in 1960 and remained derelict
for many years. With the aid of the existing drawings being made available
to the design team, refurbishment work began to re-instate the existing
station to its former glory in 2002. |
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It was quickly established that
the envelope of the building needed to be completely renewed, fortunately
the brick walls and steelwork remained in good condition despite being in
need of re-pointing, sandblasting and painting. All timber supports, roof
sheeting and patent glazing needed replacing. |
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The existing glazing
system used was manufactured from a lead sheath encasing a steel core and
was of course very heavy. Architectural products developed the PRW glazing
bar that would replicate the appearance of existing bars but using modern
materials. Although the bar had to be deeper to accommodate the spans involved
the bar shape is copied exactly. |
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The flexible design of the new
system was essential to accommodate the tolerance and variance of the site
conditions and with the simple to use snap on retention wings the installers
found it to be a ‘dream’ to fix, cutting the installation time
down by nearly half that of the conventional bolt on aluminium wing systems. |
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All of the glazing
bars and wings were polyester powder coated to the original colour specification
of the existing station and called upon the expertise of Online
coatings of Bristol (www.saint-gobain-glass.com) to replicate the sample
of the Dark Stone colour taken from the existing station. |
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The only compromise was made in
the selection of glass as the existing project used 6mm ‘Belgian Blue’
float. As this glass is no longer available and also no longer safe in overhead
glazing an alternative match was sought, although this proved difficult
as time had taken its toll on the samples of existing glass taken from site.
A match was eventually found, however costs for this were excessive so the
alternative choice of 6.4mm laminated green tinted glass was fitted, specially
cut to size by Solaglas
(www.saint-gobain-glass.com) of Birmingham. |
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Over 1560m2 of existing patent
glazing was replaced on this project by Architectural Products and although
the station is not in full operation it has already become a focal point
of Birmingham, contrasting an early 1900’s building against the new
high tech vision of the future in the bull ring development. Which one will
stay the course we wonder! |
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