KAWNEER To Tower Over The Olympic Park
 Ardmore Construction are currently installing a mixture of unitised and
traditional curtain walling from leading architectural aluminium systems
supplier Kawneer on one of the tallest residential buildings to be built in
London.
Kawneer’s AA®201 unitised or modular/off-site curtain walling will be designed
and installed by specialist contractor Architectural Glazed Facades on the
fourth to 43rd storeys of the landmark Halo Tower at 150 High Street, Stratford
(www.kawneer.co.uk/pr/sts) while the traditional stick-system AA®110
mullion-drained curtain walling with 65mm sightlines will feature on the ground
to third levels.
The tallest building in the UK to feature Kawneer’s curtain walling, the Halo
Tower will offer panoramic views over The City and Olympic Park. It is one of
six new residential buildings all over seven storeys being built by Ardmore
Construction for Genesis Housing Association.
The fast-track mixed-use regeneration development, which also includes the
refurbishment of Warton House - a 1930s building, into artists’ studios and
apartments - will provide almost 3,000m˛ of retail/commercial/community floor
space for Class A1-A4/B1/D1 uses.
More than 700 one- to four-bedroomed apartments and penthouses will benefit from
high-speed lifts and carefully-designed landscaped spaces between the buildings,
providing opportunities for residents and the public to walk, sit and play.
Delivery architects KDS Associates said: “The façade is designed to express
verticality and provide interest by the introduction of coloured spandrels which
fade from dark to light blues to the rear and upwards. To reduce the appearance
of distinct horizontal bands, four transition zones are introduced to soften
colours where they change vertically.
“Natural ventilation to each living space and bedroom is provided by purge
ventilators located behind aluminium perforated screens running the full height
of the tower.”
Ardmore said: “This integrated approach, combined with our prefabricated
bathroom pods, will enable rapid fitting out and early phased handovers. The
tower core is being jump formed and the central stairs formed in pre-cast
concrete. The early installation of lifts enables phased occupation of the lower
levels as fit-out continues above.
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