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special report: government & public buildings
Titanic’s relaunched
When RMS Titanic sailed away on her maiden voyage on April 10th
1912, she was hailed as
‘the new wonder of the world’. A remarkable feat of engineering, she was the largest and most luxuriously appointed ship ever seen and despite tragically sinking five days later, she remains a source of enduring pride in the City where she was built.
leries. This unique building also houses tempo- rary exhibits, a 1,000 seater banqueting suite, education and community facilities, catering and retail space and a basement car park. Visitors will learn about the construction of RMS Titanic and the wide and rich story of Northern Ireland’s industrial and maritime heritage. The concept architects were Eric Kuhne and
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Mark Evans of Civic Arts / Eric R. Kuhne & Associates with executive architecture by Todd Architects. Concept interior design was led by Anne Lucas
of Civic Arts, with final interior design by Kay Elliot Architects. Visitor attraction content was created by Event Communications. Civic Arts described this amazing project; ‘The
prow of the building's glass-walled atrium plots a course down the centre of the listed Titanic and Olympic slipways towards the lapping waters of the River Lagan. The project's close proximity to the very site where these two famous leviathans were forged lends it unparalleled levels of authen- ticity and immediacy that will help make its con- tents the definitive telling of those liners' stories. The building's form conjures up a mass of mar- itime metaphors; its four projecting segments are instantly evocative of ships prows ploughing their way through the North Atlantic swell. Almost the entire façade will be clad in faceted, three-dimen- sional plates in a pattern recalling of the construc- tion methods of the great ocean liners. Developed with the help of specialist facade contractor Metallbau Frueh and manufactured by Spanwall, the anodised aluminium plates are arranged into a complex asymmetrical design, fracturing the reflected light into a series of abstracted waves and breakers.’ The building is the iconic centrepiece of the
Titanic Quarter Regeneration -75 acres of the waterfront to the River Lagen and adjacent to Belfast City Centre, being 11,000 sq m (118,403 sq ft) excluding the basement underground car park of 500 spaces. In total the building is 14,000 sq m (150,700 sq ft). The entire external façade is clad in several thousand, three-dimensional aluminium plates, creating an awe-inspiring visual appearance, which is further enhanced by reflective pools of water surrounding the base of the structure. The façades lean out at angles of up to 25
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