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Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 08 June 2004
Winning Modern Statement In
As the UK's leading brick manufacturer, Ibstock claimed five awards at last years BDA Awards and continues to demonstrate the provision of the widest choice of standard and special bricks.
In a conservatively minded historic market town, such as Shrewsbury, the introduction of a modern building design inevitably polarises opinions amongst those influencing the planning application The building is to be used as an award-winning modern showroom designed for Manser Antiques
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 9 Jul 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The principal material used was Ibstock's Staffordshire Slate Blue brick, which complemented the adjacent railway viaduct and local Victorian terrace buildings, but was also used because of its thoroughly modern matt appearance.
The building won the Best Commercial Building category of the 2003 BDA brick Awards.
Project architect Paul Harries, Partner at Baart Harries Newall, commented: "Ibstock's Staffordshire Slate Blue was the only engineering brick we found which did nor have a 'polish' or sheen to it.
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It contrasted well with the extensive glazed elevations, yet provided essential continuity with surrounding structures." FC Manser and Son, one of the UK's leading antiques dealers, had purchased a prominent corner site at a major entrance to Shrewsbury's one way inner ring system, and located between the railway, the road and the flood plain dropping down to the nearby River Severn.
The new building's basic configuration comprises two sweeping roofs suspended above glazed frontages enclosing back to back showrooms.
These advertise the antiques one way to the road and rail travellers, and the other towards the customer car park.
One main elevation using the Staffordshire Slate Blue brick fronts the road and curves with the corner.
It is pierced with different window openings, which afford intriguing glimpses of the treasures within to motorists and pedestrians, as they hurry around to the car park and main entrance.
The building is built on two heights, partly to ensure some relief from possible flooding of the river.
Inside, there are several different levels and variations in interior space size allowing antiques to be displayed in 'room sets' from the large scale to the intimate.
While traditionalists on the town council objected on principle to the design, many other forces, including the planning officers and local residents, favoured the new showroom.
It replaced a derelict warehouse on a brownfield site, and its supporters rightly saw it as a distinctive and elegant asset to a corner of Shrewsbury that was in danger of decaying further.
Architects: Baart Harries Newall.
Main and brick contractor: EJ and GJ Groom.
As the UK's leading brick manufacturer, Ibstock claimed five awards at the 2003 BDA Awards and continues to demonstrate the provision of the widest choice of standard and special bricks.
In addition, Ibstock's unique and expanding Intelligent Brickwork range continues to lead the way in prefabricated designs to improve the availability of cost-effective high aesthetic brickwork, without the need for special skills.
All Ibstock's products are backed by its unique technical, design, merchant and site support services and comprehensive information - website and literature.
More than 170 years' brick making experience is sustained by Ibstock's national network of factories and highly trained staff.
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