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Contact
Stuart Marsh
Address The Broadgate Tower, 20 Primrose Street
EC2A 2EW London, United Kingdom
Website
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) is one of the leading architecture,
interior design, engineering, and urban planning firms in the world, with
a 75-year reputation for design excellence and a portfolio that includes
some of the most important architectural accomplishments of the 20th and
21st centuries.
SOM’s longstanding leadership in design and building technology has
been honoured with more than 1,700 international awards, with the
practice twice having been named ‘Firm of the Year’ by the American
Institute of Architects.
Owner
Manhattan Loft Corporation
Architect
SOM
General Contractor
Bouygues UK
Engineering Office
SOM
Construction Period 02/2015 - 02/2017
Manhattan Loft Gardens
is located in Stratford Town Centre, London,
adjacent to Stratford International Train Station. The project consists
of a 42 storey tower and seven story hotel podium, with a part single
storey basement. The roof of the hotel will form an outdoor amenity and
recreation space.
The residential tower measures 30 m by 30 m and will project above the
eastern half of the hotel structure. The massing of the tower is characterised
by several diagonal
three storey high notches
that run diagonally from
corner to corner across the square plan, and through which the typical tower
columns are transferred out. The entire podium structure and the basement
slab were modelled employing SCIA Engineer. Ground beams, isolated pile
caps and piles were modelled as 2D Beam elements and were attached
directly to a FE Model of the hotel podium, using SCIA Engineer.
The most challenging aspects of this project, from a design point of view,
are the transfer areas at Level 10 and 28 above the notches. These are
formed by 10 m long post-tensioned concrete cantilever walls that reach out
from the building’s core to support the perimeter steel belt trusses. These
are the principal architectural and structural features, and will make this
building a unique and intriguing project in the London market, an example of
the powerful combination of integrated architecture and engineering, one of
SOM’s core values.
Manhattan Loft Gardens - London, United Kingdom
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