One Centenary Way, Birmingham, UK - Construction with Community

Follow here with It'sYourBuild, the development of One Centenary Way, a 280,000 sq. ft 13 storey building, the first build as part of Phase Two of Paradise Birmingham.


In brief

This development is quite unique as it has had to address a number of below-ground constraints. 

The main one is that the A38 Queensway Tunnel, running directly underneath the building, is to remain active throughout both the construction and its future occupation.

Given this there is very little opportunity for the building to make contact with the ground as a traditional building would. The innovative solution in the absence of a normal load-bearing core, has been for the building’s façade to provide the stability in the form of a "Vierendeel Exoskeleton".

In addition to this solution, and to avoid any interface with the live A38 tunnel, One Centenary Way will sit on storey height transfer trusses. This will result in transfering the load of the façade and the buildings floorplates either side of the tunnel.  Then, by constructing a podium slab on top of the trusses, a lid will be formed to the car park and a table created for the Vierendeel Exoskeleton to sit on.

Wow what a build and a masterclass in both design and engineering!

The developer is Argent.  The architect is Glenn Howells.  The contractor is Sir Robert McAlpine

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There are now over 900 photos of the construction of this building and can be seen in reverse date order in the full gallery here: One Centenary Way Full Construction Gallery

Latest Photo: 24th February 2024

Photography by Daniel Sturley

The view from the 12th floor terrace.

Photography by Daniel Sturley

See the full gallery for recent photos from the Paradise Birmingham Community Photographers Visit to the 12th floor terrace on 14th April 2023

The story so far

July 2020

 

August 2020

 

 

September 2020

 

October 2020

 

December 2020

 

January 2021

 

February 2021

 

March 2021

April 2021

May 2021

June 2021

July 2021

August 2021

September 2021

25th September. Photography by Daniel Sturley

21st October 2021.  Photography by Daniel Sturley

13th November.  Photography by Daniel Sturley

11th December 2021

Photography by Daniel Sturley

15th January 2022

Photography by Daniel Sturley

23rd February 2022, from the 18th floor outside terrace of 103 Colmore Row.

8th March 2022 from the Library

26th March 2022

16th April 2022, from the Brindleyplace rooftop at sunrise.

21st May 2022 from New Street

25th June 2022 from the Library

Photography by Daniel Sturley

17th July 2022

Photography by Daniel Sturley

29th July 2022

Photography by Daniel Sturley

6th August 2022

Photography by Daniel Sturley

27th August 2022

Photography by Daniel Sturley

 

25th September 2022

Photography by Daniel Sturley

17th December 2022

Photography by Daniel Sturley

Latest Photo: 4th February 2023

Photography by Daniel Sturley

See the full gallery for recent photos from the Paradise Birmingham Community Photographers Visit to the 12th floor terrace on 14th April 2023:

The view from the 12th floor terrace.

Photography by Daniel Sturley

There are now over 900 photos of the construction of this building and can be seen in reverse date order in the full gallery here: One Centenary Way Full Construction Gallery

Project dates

14 Mar 2019 - On-going

Passions

Construction & regeneration, Modern Architecture

Contact

Your Place Your Space

Jonathan Bostock

0121 410 5520
jonathan.bostock@ yourplaceyourspace.com