This office building in parkland next to an artificial lake in Newcastle Upon Tyne became the HQ of the Northern Gas Board (now merged into British Gas) to consolidate its accounting, engineering, legal and administrative departments, which were previously scattered around the city. The complex was planned to form the centre of the new 'township' of Killingworth, an overspill extension to Newcastle. Arranged over two principal levels, the scheme was designed flexibly, with most of the ground floor left open, providing 1,000m~2 for future uses without disturbing the rest of the building. The steel frame construction consists of two-storey, single-bay secondary frames carried on 6.5m bridge beams, which in turn are carried on three-storey main frames. The two upper floors are clad in an anodised aluminium curtain walling with infill panels of vitreous enamelled steel sheet. The building is now Grade ll-listed and occupied by the Planning Department of North Tyneside Council. Visit theajbl.co.uk to see more photographs and drawings of this project and over 3,500 others
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