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News Release from: Canal Engineering
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Team on 14 June 2004
Winning Design Grabs Architectural
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Nottingham-based specialist Canal Engineering is now set to grab the all the headlines at architectural and construction shows thanks to its innovative and eye-catching new exhibition stand.
Created as a result of a design competition between architecture students at the University of Nottingham, the striking new stand design is based on an armoured medieval gauntlet and displays many of the specialist metalworking and fabrications skills which Canal Engineering provides Among the many high-profile buildings for which Canal has provided specially commissioned metal work are the Urbis Museum and Imperial War Museum North in Manchester, and the Magna Centre in Rotherham
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 26 Jan 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The design competition was organised to reflect the type of advanced metalworking solutions which Canal contributes to projects such as these.
"The Nottingham students produced some excellent ideas, with this one standing out as the best combination of imaginative design and practicality.
We unveiled the new stand at this year's Interbuild exhibition and it drew lots of admiring comments," says Martin Price, Managing Director of Lenton-based Canal Engineering.
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Prominent among those admirers was the President of the Royal Institute of British Architects, George Ferguson: "I am impressed with the outcome of this enlightened collaboration between manufacturer and architecture school," he commented.
"The dramatic display stands head and shoulders above the competition and demonstrates the versatility open to todays architects and designers in the use of both decorative and structural metalwork." "The structural legs of the design represent the five 'fingers' of the gauntlet on which we based our initial design and they support the mezzanine floor," explains Spencer Fretwell, one the 4-man team which created the winning design.
"We clad the framework in a variety of metal sheets and mesh to reflect the wide range of materials which Canal is able to work with." Although some aspects of the design were amended during the transition from drawing board to reality, this was only done to satisfy the stand's need to be portable and meet health and safety requirements.
The final version remained faithful to the original vision, and the result reflects the unique blend of traditional and modern craftsmanship which Canal offers.
The team which created the winning design included students Christian Dimbleby, Darran Oxley, Spencer Fretwell and Matthew Phillips, who received a cheque for £500 in recognition of their success.
The stand itself will now go on to be used at all future trade exhibition which Canal attends.
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