Corus. (Specifier's Information).Baltic, the newly opened Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead Gateshead (gāts`hĕd), city (1991 pop. 91,429) and metropolitan district, NE England, on the Tyne River opposite Newcastle upon Tyne. Service industries, light engineering, paints, refrigeration, heating, and air conditioning equipment, ordnance, and wire and cable are among the city's industries., was re-roofed with a Kalzip aluminium standing seam roof as part of its refurbishment. Formerly the Baltic Flour Mills, the Centre was converted to an art gallery by Ellis Williams Architects. The standing seam roof is barrel-vaulted in shape and the stucco stucco (stŭk`ō), in architecture, a term loosely applied to various kinds of plasterwork, both exterior and interior. It now commonly refers to a plaster or cement used for the external coating of buildings, most frequently employed in Mediterranean countries. embossed profiled sheets are curved to a radius of 11.2m. The complete Kalzip system -- aluminium lining sheets, vapour control layer and mineral wool insulation -- was specified to provide a high performance low maintenance roof. 900 www.arplus.com/enq.html |
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