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James and Taylor win contract to provide façade for hospital development in Salford(22/03/2010)
James & Taylor have won the contract to provide a state-of-the-art façade for a major £90 million hospital development in Salford, Greater Manchester. The Hope Building, set to provide 36,000m2 of new facilities at Salford Royal Hospital, will be clad in 2,600m2 Pastelrot Patinated Alphaton – chosen by architects HKS International Ltd to mirror the hospital’s existing Victorian terracotta buildings. The new building is part of a £136m investment in extensive new facilities at Salford Royal, ... [more]
James and Taylor win contracts to put a new face on student living accommodation in Scotland(03/02/2010)
Façade design experts James & Taylor have won two major contracts to put a new face on student living accommodation in key Scottish cities. The company will supply Alphaton terracotta facades for iQ Property Partnership in a new development at Edinburgh University and another for Opal Property Group at the University of Abertay, Dundee. Both projects are worth a total of £38m. Architects Fletcher Joseph commissioned James & Taylor to supply 2,600m2 Beige Alphaton tiles for the Fountain Nor... [more]
James and Taylor create shingle terracotta façade for Premier Inn in Doncaster(11/11/2009)
Constructed by Multibuild for Doncaster developer Basilton Properties, the Premier Inn is in Doncaster’s historic centre, near the Market Place, Corn Exchange and St George’s church. The 3-star hotel is part of the prestigious £9.4 million High Fisher Gate development in Doncaster town centre. It includes a 140-room hotel, restaurant and 3,000m2 of commercial and retail space. James & Taylor have created their first UK shingle terracotta façade for Doncaster’s new business class Premier Inn,... [more]
James and Taylor heatproof facade protects the Highland Archive Centre(06/11/2009)
Completed to coincide with the Year of Scottish Homecoming 2009, the Highland Archive Centre in Inverness will house a treasure trove of Scotland’s rarest and most historically significant papers and documents. Cladding specialist James & Taylor have put a highly secure face on the Highland Archive Centre. The temperature and light-controlled building has been specially designed to be the perfect environment to house the artefacts, which have until now been stored in less than ideal surroundi... [more]
James and Taylor to supply natural glazed cladding to green library project in Leeds(26/10/2009)
Garforth Library and One Stop Centre in Leeds, West Yorkshire is a community-focused project with a difference – it is being designed and built to green-friendly specifications encouraging wildlife to live on the building itself whilst employing solar technology to heat the building’s internal water system. Leeds Library & Information Service was awarded £1.4m from the Big Lottery Fund to develop the new Library & One Stop Centre for Garforth. The current Library building will be extended and... [more]
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