Week 2- Ana Maria Nicolaescu

 

2 FITZROY PLACE, Mortimer Street, Fitzrovia, London W1T

 

PROJECT INFO : Architect Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands / Shepphard Robson

Services Engineer AECOM

Structural Engineer Ramboll

Main Contractor Sir Robert McAlpine

BUILDING COMPONENT: roof, undulated shape, covering the

8th floor of the office spaces in bulding

2 Fitzroy Place

 

The elements are built out of precast reinforced white

concrete, with “teeth” that hold the glazed projecting

external glass fins; above, a photo of a similar fabrication

 

the elements are transported to the site, after being cured

in a stainless steel mould