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News Release from: OAG | Subject: Optima Architectural Glass
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 03 February 2004
Optima Architectural Glass awarded
£1.2m Contract
Specialist glazing contractor Optima Architectural Glass has won an order worth approximately £1.2 million for work on a new office development designed by the Richard Rogers Partnership.
Referred to as K2, the project is located in St Katharine Dock, London E1
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 22 Dec 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Working with main contractor, Taylor Woodrow Construction Ltd, Optima will commence operations in March 2004.
Glass will be used extensively throughout the new building.
Work will include the construction of five internal atrium bridges using surface treated and diffused laminated glass panels to provide non-slip walkways with steel post and glass infill balustrades and handrails.
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In addition, there are seven floors of lift core glazing including lift landing floors and glass cladding to the lift shafts in the central and outer cores.
Andy Grey, divisional director for Optima Architectural Glass comments: "Optima has more than ten years experience as a specialist glazing contractor and we are working closely with the world-leading practice Richard Rogers Partnership to meet their design concepts for this contemporary new build project." About K2 The building will create a window orientated towards the Tower of London with an atrium space accommodating communal facilities such as entrance foyers and exhibition areas.
The glass facade, glass support structure, escalators and glazed lifts create a layering of material texture and light animated by movement of the users through the building.
There are four towers located at each corner of the proposed building.
The primary tower, located in the north west corner, anchors the building and marks the site with a vertical element allowing it to be linked to the urban space bound by the Tower of London, Sceptre Court and the Royal Mint development.
K2 is a nine-storey building, for which planning permission was granted in March 2000.
It is built on the site of the former 1960s office development known as Europe House, which was demolished in 2002.
K2 will provide retail outlets facing into the St Katharine Dock environment with eight storeys of offices above, approached from the Tower Hill intersection.
K2 is located on the corner site created by Tower Bridge approach road and East Smithfield, and faces the West Dock towards the River Thames.
Company background Optima Architectural Glass, part of the HLS Construction Group, is a specialist glazing contractor based in High Wycombe with more than ten years experience in the design, management and installation of glass.
It provides an extensive range of services and products for all architectural glass applications.
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