NATURAL STONE CASE STUDY - KINGS GATE BUILDING - NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY STUDENT & ADMIN SERVICES

STONE DESCRIPTION:

Fletcher Bank sandstone is a distinctive fine to medium grained sandstone from the Millstone Grit series of Carboniferous age. The stone is extracted from the Fletcher Bank Quarry, Lancashire.

The random buff to grey colour of our Fletcher Bank Sandstone is particularly striking when used for large scale cladding projects, providing a high quality exterior finish.

PROJECT SUMMARY:

This 8000 square meter building, opposite St. Thomas’s Green has been dubbed the new ‘front door’ to the Newcastle University. Designed by one of the education sector’s leading architectural practices Bond Bryan this successful project has been elegantly designed and built to strict environmental guidelines to provide threshold space for visitor and student access, open-plan offices, meeting rooms and support areas.

THE BUILD SOLUTION:

This imposing four-storey frontage to the Barras Bridge and five-storey volume to King’s Walk uses natural Fletcher Bank ashlar rainscreen cladding and reflective glass, providing the structure with an impressive yet elegant and simplistic façade that masks a more complex, deep plan footprint behind.

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