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Newfoundland Tower in London
Unspectacular name for a spectacular landmark
One could assume that the spectacular diamond-shaped 62-storey residential skyscraper (220 m, 721 ft) owes its name to the deep connection existing between the Canadian province of Newfoundland and England… far from it…inspiration for the name came through an unexpected discovery, “a new found land”, by the company that was building it.
Newfoundland Tower is the first residential building within the Canary Wharf estate and consists of high-quality residential apartments (636), retail space and residential amenities. It catches immediately the eye because of its striking elegant appearance stemming from its elongated octagonal shape and its transparent diagrid structural frame expressing on the exterior façade and providing separation for the private apartment balconies. Hence, it creates a contrasting yet complementary form to the predominant rectangular office-building townscape.
Unique ground conditions lead to innovative solutions in design
The tower’s location in the busy and confined western area of the Canary Wharf estate, close to the River Thames, posed the construction’s first major technical challenge and dictated how the building’s structure was designed, with knock-on effects for how it was constructed. Unique ground conditions like the presence of the London Underground tunnels and the high water level required utmost precision during piling, which was done in between and around the tunnels. Thus, Newfoundland has the smallest footprint for a building of that size anywhere in the UK, determining its slim diamond shape. It also explains why the structural support of the building consists of a steel diagrid structure. But the fact that the diagrid provides the main structural support posed another challenge for the constructors. Indeed, the building loads had to be transferred through the external structure and down to the ground, landing in between and either side of the underground tunnels.
Dillinger supplied for this elegant steel diamond 4,400 t heavy plates in the grades S355ML, S355K2+N, S355J2+N, S355J0+N, S355NL and S355M in thicknesses between 10 and 155 mm.
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