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Engineers take over a Victorian Crypt to showcase the future of building design

07-11-2024 16:03 via ianvisits.co.uk

If you fancy seeing some impressive examples of architectural engineering and do so in a dark church crypt, then you’re in luck.For just over a week, the Engineering Club has taken over the subterranean space underneath Euston’s St Pancras Parish Church, filling spaces for the dead with examples of buildings for the living.
It’s an exhibition of recent projects and research by members of the Engineering Club with models, drawings, sketches, prototypes and samples of the creativ

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Heat from tube tunnels could warm city offices in £1 billion network

07-11-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

The heat from the London Underground could warm offices and buildings across central London, as plans for a £1 billion heat network have been announced.
The Westminster-based heat network could span from Victoria in the west to Fleet Street in the east, covering large parts of Pimlico, Whitehall, and Strand. Once built, a network of underground, insulated pipes filled with hot water will pump heat around the city.
The potential heat network (c) Project SWAN
At the moment, the specifics of

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London’s Cable Car to reduce its opening hours due to a lack of customers

07-11-2024 12:30 via ianvisits.co.uk

Early morning commuters using the London Cable Car will lose their service, as there aren’t enough of them to open the cable car quite so early in the morning.At the moment, the IFS Cloud Cable Car opens at 7am during the week, but with an average of just 4 customers in the first hour of the day, Transport for London (TfL) wants to open the service later in the morning.
The current opening hoursMon to Fri: 7am to 10pm
Sat: 8am to 10pm
Sun: 9am to 10pmThe proposed opening hoursMon to Tur: 8

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Architect Thomas Wallis honoured with a Blue Plaque at Victoria Coach Station

07-11-2024 09:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

The art deco style Victoria Coach Station has gained a Blue Plaque — to commemorate the man who designed it — the architect Thomas Wallis.
Victoria Coach Station (c) ianVisits
Thomas Wallis (1872–1953) was a British architect known for his Art Deco designs and for founding Wallis, Gilbert and Partners. He started his career as an independent architect, but in 1901 he took a job working for the government. During WWI, he helped design rapid assembly buildings to use during the w

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