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News Release from: Shackerley (Holdings) | Subject: Ceramic granite ventilated rainscreen
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 26 October 2007
Shackerley clads largest Travelodge
Ceramic granite ventilated rainscreen specialist Shackerley has helped Dexter Moren Architects to deliver a landmark 392-bedroom hotel building leading budget hotel brand Travelodge.
The GBP60m project is Travelodge's largest hotel to date and is also the biggest low-cost hotel to be built in the capital in over a decade In a premium location in Central London this ambitious development incorporates the Grade II listed Lowndes House building, constructed in the late 1920s for the Singer sewing machine company
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 4 Oct 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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However the bulk of the hotel is a new adjoining seven-storey building featuring Shackerley's contemporary ceramic granite ventilated facades, specifically designed to reflect the rhythm of the historic building and to follow its neo-Baroque proportions and styling.
Project Architect David Taylor of Dexter Moren said: "It would have been completely unrealistic and prohibitive to clad the elevations of the new building with Portland Stone to replicate the materials used to create the Lowndes House frontages.
However, it was important from a conservation and planning viewpoint to employ a facade material that would work in sympathy with the original building.
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We worked closely with Shackerley and the planners at Islington Borough Council to specify a particular style and colour of ceramic granite in a natural textured finish that would complement the existing Portland Stone, but with a contemporary twist.
"Although this was primarily a new-build project, the new facades were to follow the styling of the original building, which meant that we could not simply use standard modules.
We needed to use a material that could be precision cut to very exacting schedules and we required Shackerley to provide all 750 rainscreen facade panels in bespoke sizes which ranged from small and narrow infills up to the largest panels which measured over 1500mm by 1000mm".
Each 30mm thick ceramic granite panel was supplied ready to install on site, complete with Shackerley's hanging brackets securely affixed to the rear using a patented anchor system.
The brackets allowed the contractors, Baris, to mechanically fix each slab securely to Shackerley's horizontal carrier rails which were installed on the exterior of the new building.
All prefabrication work - cutting, drilling and bracketing - was carried out at Shackerley's Lancashire factory.
Architect David Taylor said: "This high performance material has enabled us to deliver a high quality design solution for a low-cost, budget hotel operation.
The ceramic granite facades have ensured that the new part of the hotel complements and reflects one of London's finest 1920's buildings".
Dexter Moren Architects handed the completed project over to their clients at the end of September 2007, three weeks ahead of schedule.
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