31-584: (Redirected from London City Hall ) City Hall, London may refer to: City Hall, London (Newham) , a building in Newham that has been the headquarters of the Greater London Authority since 2022 City Hall, London (Southwark) , a building in Southwark that was the headquarters of the Greater London Authority between 2002 and 2021 City Hall
62-566: A trust whose beneficiaries are its employees, past and present, who receive a share of its operating profit each year. The company was founded in London in 1946 as Ove N. Arup Consulting Engineers by Sir Ove Arup . Arup had established himself in the 1930s as an expert in reinforced concrete , known for projects such as the Penguin Pool at London Zoo . According to the architectural author Ian Volner, Arup's vision when establishing
93-462: A change of use for the building in December 2020. The move was completed in the third week of January 2022, delayed from the previous planned opening date in December 2021. The building was renamed "City Hall" in December 2021. The entire site is 18,000 square metres (190,000 sq ft) in size and the surrounding landscape was designed to be a sustainable urban landscape to help encourage
124-426: A concept known as 'Total Design'. As the company grew, Arup spurned the common practice amongst its rivals of acquiring other companies; instead, it pursued natural growth, opening up new offices at locations where the potential for work had been identified. During 1963, together with the architect Philip Dowson , a new division of the company, Arup Associates, was formed. Within 25 years of its establishment,
155-541: A contemporary, distinctive edge and the company strives to revolutionise stadium architecture and performance. For instance, the Bird's Nest Stadium for the 2008 Olympics was complimented for its striking architectural appearance and the City of Manchester Stadium for the 2002 Commonwealth Games has stairless entry to the upper tiers through circular ramps outside the stadium. The most notable stadium projects led by Arup remain
186-664: A seamless, 24-hour working cycle. However, it is more common for individual offices to specialise in working on an assigned subsection of a project rather than continuously exchanging. The BBC Television and RIBA documentary The Brits who Built the Modern World highlighted Arup's collaboration with architects and described Arup as "the engineering firm which Lord Norman Foster and his peers Lord Richard Rogers , Sir Nicholas Grimshaw , Sir Michael Hopkins and Sir Terry Farrell most frequently relied upon." The firm has published an annual sustainability report since 2008, and
217-463: A shift in the social ideology, making 'sustainability' more attractive and allowing people to participate in social activities within the site, which includes local food programmes and community gardens to help foster this principle. The building contains a number of sustainable technologies, including the building management system and KNX infrastructure. The building control devices, such as lighting, windows, blinds and heating, are connected using
248-706: Is a metonym for the Greater London Authority , the devolved administration that occupies the building Westminster City Hall , the headquarters of Westminster City Council See also [ edit ] Guildhall, London , headquarters of the City of London Corporation County Hall, London , formerly the headquarters of the London County Council, and then the Greater London Council Topics referred to by
279-413: Is an employee-owned business, with all staff owning a stake in the company and part of a global profit share. By 2013, Arup was operating 90 offices across 60 countries around the world. These offices are elaborately interconnected by shared internet -based collaborative working packages and communication systems that can, where required, enable a single project to be worked on by multiple offices across
310-524: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages City Hall, London (Newham) City Hall , in the London Borough of Newham in east London , is the headquarters of the Greater London Authority (GLA), the regional government for Greater London . It replaced the previous City Hall , in Southwark in 2022. The building opened in 2012 and
341-840: Is involved in several projects around the world aiming to cut greenhouse gas emissions, such as Dongtan Eco-City , which is planned to be zero waste, and the High Speed 2 Interchange Station, which is the first railway station in the world to achieve BREEAM 'outstanding certification. Arup also runs community engagement programmes comprising initiatives to combat homelessness, improve sanitation in disaster relief programmes, and disaster recovery after earthquakes. They also engage in partnerships with governments , NGOs , think tanks , and other advocacy groups. Arup had its own sports division, specialising in designing, consulting and structural engineering for sporting facilities such as stadia . Many of Arup's modern stadia are designed with
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#1732775911901372-613: The City of Manchester Stadium (2002), Allianz Arena (2005), Beijing National Stadium (2008), Donbass Arena (2009) and the Singapore Sports Hub (2014). The firm is consistently placed amongst top performers in Corporate and Social Responsibility rankings such as the ACCSR. Arup's multidisciplinary sports venue design and engineering scope on the Singapore Sports Hub won the 2013 World Architecture Festival Award in
403-813: The London cable car , and Royal Victoria station , the Docklands Light Railway and Custom House railway station on the Elizabeth line are within walking distance. It is close to London City Airport . The Crystal was built as a key part of the Green Enterprise District policy of the London Development Agency . The building was designed by Perkins+Will (fit-out, design leader) and Wilkinson Eyre Architects (shell and core), with Arup Group who were
434-955: The 2002 World Architecture Awards. Arup was awarded the Worldaware Award for Innovation for its Vawtex air system in Harare International School. Arup won the Gold Medal for Architecture at the National Eisteddfod of Wales of 1998 for their work on the Control Techniques Research and Development HQ, in Newtown, Powys . Arup Fire has won the Fire Safety Engineering Design award four times since its creation in 2001. The 2001 inaugural award
465-654: The 2012 ITA AITES International Tunnelling Awards. Arup was awarded Infrastructure Architect of the Year at the 2020 Architect of the Year Awards. Arup was awarded Britains Most Admired Company 2021 by Management Today Barbara Lane, associate director with Arup, won the Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal in 2008 for her outstanding contribution to British engineering on design of structures for fire. Rogier van der Heide , at that time Director of Arup and
496-546: The Future Projects, Leisure Category. The Casa da Música , Oporto , designed by Arup and Office for Metropolitan Architecture was nominated for the 2007 Stirling Prize . Arup's work with The Druk White Lotus School , Ladakh , won them Large Consultancy Firm of the Year 2003 at the British Consultants and Construction Bureau – International Expertise Awards, 2003 building on their triple win at
527-539: The KNX protocol. The building has over 2,500 KNX connected devices. Arup Group Arup (officially Arup Group Limited ) is a British multinational professional services firm headquartered in London that provides design , engineering , architecture , planning , and advisory services across every aspect of the built environment . It employs about 17,000 people in over 90 offices across 35 countries, and has participated in projects in over 160 countries. Arup
558-454: The aims of the firm and identified the principles of governance by which they might be achieved. These included quality of work, total architecture, humane organisation, straight and honorable dealings, social usefulness, and the reasonable prosperity of its members. Arup's philosophy work on influential projects was the subject of a dedicated retrospective at the V&;A Museum in 2016. Arup
589-456: The building and civil engineers, and Townshend Landscape Architects who designed the public realm. Event Communications were the exhibition designers, responsible for the interpretive planning, exhibition design and creative direction, graphic design, media direction and construction management for the exhibition spaces. The building was the first to achieve the highest sustainable building accolades, platinum and outstanding respectively, from
620-415: The company came out of a combination of his wartime experiences and a progressive-minded philosophy broadly aligning with early modernism, was for the organisation to be a force for peace and social betterment in the postwar world. To this end, it would employ professionals of diverse disciplines that could work together to produce projects of greater quality than was achievable by them working in isolation,
651-467: The firm had become well known for its design work for the built environment , acquiring a reputation for its competence at undertaking projects that were structurally and/or logistically complex. Arup himself worked on multiple projects during the firm's early years, including the Sydney Opera House , where he was lead engineer, and which author Peter Jones credited with launching Arup into
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#1732775911901682-555: The firm's global leader of the lighting design business, received the Radiance Award, the world's most prestigious lighting design prize presented by the International Association of Lighting Designers Arup Fellow is a lifelong honorary title awarded to selected honorary individuals in the firm. It acknowledges the highest design and technical achievements of people, not only within the firm, but also in
713-538: The premier league of engineering consultancies. The Opera House was the first application of computer calculations to an engineering project, using the Ferranti Pegasus computer to generate models. During Arup's lifetime, the company would also work on high-profile projects such as the 'inside-out' Centre Pompidou with Rogers & Piano, and the HSBC headquarters with Norman Foster & Partners. 1970
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775-622: The world's two leading accreditation bodies, LEED and BREEAM . When it opened, the Crystal contained a permanent exhibition about sustainable development , and was owned and operated by Siemens . In 2016, Siemens sold the building to the GLA, who acquired it to use as a base for the Mayor of London 's £3.5bn project to regenerate the Royal Docks . After Siemens vacated the building in 2019, it
806-480: The year in 2008. Arup was awarded the 2010 Live Design Excellence Award for Theatre Design for the integrated theatre and acoustic team's design for the new Jerome Robbins Theatre, created for Mikhail Baryshnikov and The Wooster Group. The Evelyn Grace Academy, London designed by Zaha Hadid Architects and Arup won the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2011. Arup was named Tunnel Design Firm of the Year at
837-483: Was a particularly transformative year for the firm; 24 years after founding the company, Arup opted to retire from actively leading the company. At the time, the firm (then Ove Arup & Partners ) was made up of several independent practices spread across the globe, so prior to his departure, Arup delivered his 'Key Speech' on 9 July in Winchester to all his partners from the various practices. The speech set out
868-404: Was established in 1946 by Sir Ove Arup as Ove N. Arup Consulting Engineers. Through its involvement in high-profile projects such as the Sydney Opera House , it became well known for undertaking complex and challenging projects. In 1970, Arup stepped down from actively leading the company, setting out the principles which have continued to guide its operation. Arup's ownership is structured as
899-488: Was previously an exhibition centre for sustainable architecture, known as The Crystal . Built and opened by Siemens , it was the first building in the world to reach the highest sustainability award level (see LEED and BREEAM ). It was bought by the GLA in 2019 for the docklands redevelopment project. The building is situated next to the redeveloped Royal Victoria Dock in Canning Town . The northern terminus of
930-540: Was used by the Royal Docks regeneration team but large parts of the building remained empty. In June 2020, the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan announced that he was consulting on relocating the headquarters of the GLA from City Hall in Southwark to The Crystal in order to save £55 million for the GLA over the course of five years. The decision was confirmed on 3 November 2020; Newham Borough Council gave permission for
961-668: Was won for Arup's contribution to the Eden Project in Cornwall, UK, the world's largest greenhouse. In 2004, the design for London's City Hall was appointed joint winner. In 2005, the Temple Mills Eurostar Depot won. The 2006 winning entry was for Amethyst House, a nine-storey building with an atrium from the ground to the top, in Manchester , UK. Arup was Royal Town Planning Institute Consultancy of