Angel Central raises the iconic wings
ANGEL CENTRAL RAISES THE ICONIC WINGS
LONDON, July/August – CBRE Global Investors has today announced the significant completion of a key milestone, the raising of the angel wing sculpture, as part of the centre’s £16m refurbishment plans at Angel
The sculpture has been an important part of the scheme for the community and following a local resident’s campaign to ‘Save The Wings’ in 2018, the decision was made to incorporate them into the new design for the centre.
A complex task followed as the twelve-tonne, hand-rolled stainless steel sculpture, spanning fifteen metres, had to be raised by 3.5metres from its current position to sit atop a new footbridge. This new raised location forms part of the planned al fresco dining area that will be constructed as a focal point of the centre’s significant refurbishment plans.
The team at RED Construction, appointed for their expertise in central London developments, utilised a new innovative lifting process, the hydra capsule, to deliver this design. The twelve-tonne structure was slowly raised, with monitoring points in place, to ensure the correct load transfer in accordance with the construction safe workplace procedures. The angel wings now stand taller and have become even more striking and iconic than ever before.
Commenting on the plans for Angel Central, Ciara Daffy, Asset Manager at CBRE Global Investors, said: “Our investment in the redevelopment of Angel Central has been a long-term plan for the destination. We wanted to provide the local community with a reimagined space and enhanced offer that includes more restaurants, outdoor seating and leisure – all building on the existing strong mix within the scheme such as O2 Academy, Vue Cinema and Frame.”
Graham Sturge, Managing Director of Farringdon based RED Construction added: “The raising of the wings was one of the key milestones for this extensive refurbishment project at Angel Central. Our expert team onsite worked together to safely manoeuvre this iconic sculpture to its newly raised position. We had to work within a limited space but the innovative technology we used ensured we delivered this within our short time frame of only 5 days – this is an intricate phase of the project completed successfully.”
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The sculpture, designed by award-winning artist Wolfgang Buttress in 2003, was intended to symbolise life and movement and has come to be a focal point of the area ever since – growing in popularity as an ‘Insta-hotspot’ in recent years.
This latest milestone comes as part of Angel Central’s overall £16m refurbishment which is due to be completed by the end of Autumn 2020. The masterplan will see the extension of the centre’s leisure, retail and restaurant space.
Angel Central reopened the majority of its retail stores on Monday 15th June in line with government guidance during the COVID-19 pandemic, adopting a new ‘Safety Central’ campaign which includes many stringent measures to ensure the wellbeing of all staff, employees and visitors to Angel Central.
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New Project in Islington – Angel Central Shopping Centre
RED Construction has been awarded a 28 week £7m contract at Angel Central Shopping Centre, Islington.
The project, for CBRE Global Investors, includes the elevation of an existing ‘Angel Wings’ sculpture and construction of a new pedestrian link bridge including balcony extensions to the first-floor walkways. An innovative lifting process has been developed to lift the 12-tonne wings by 3.5metres with monitoring points to ensure the correct load transfer in accordance with the construction method statement. Beneath the link bridge an ellipse-shaped fully glazed kiosk unit is to be constructed integrated with new concrete faced steps, seating and landscaping planters are to be provided. On the first floor, an existing retail unit is to be converted to a restaurant with double height fully glazed curtain walling system with feature terracotta baguettes installed externally as a brise soleil. The existing ceilings, lighting, pavings and balustrading to the public areas are to be fully replaced to provide a more modern appearance.
Graham Sturge Managing Director of Farringdon based RED Construction commented that the firm was “proud to be working with CBRE Global Investors on such an exciting and creative project.”
RED Construction is working with the following project team.
Employer – PEC Parkfield Ltd
Client – CBRE Global Investors
Project Manager – Queensberry
Cost Consultants – Henry Riley LLP
Architect – Haskoll
Structural Engineer – AECOM
Services Engineer – AECOM
Working through COVID-19
Everyone here at RED hopes that you and your families are well and remain in good spirits during these challenging times. We thought that we would bring you up to date with life at RED Construction:
The strength of the business has enabled RED to continue and we are still self-funding with all of our staff in place on full pay. We have not had to take up the Government’s furlough offer and very much hope to continue as we are, working to reduce the burden on our economy.
We are still working on live sites, social distancing and taking every reasonable precaution to protect our teams, supply chain partners and the public.
We are continuing to tender and undertaking pre-construction, design development and planning roles in a very active market.
We remain very optimistic about the future for RED and intend to maintain a steady work volume, increasing as the restrictions ease. We are also in regular contact with our sub-contract supply chain partners and materials suppliers to assist in helping them through this crisis.
Whilst we have contingency plans to ensure worst-case scenarios are dealt with, we currently remain “all systems go” and are proactively looking to maintain steady growth through this period.
Please give Graham Sturge or Jim Lomas-Farley a call if you would like any further detail or would like to discuss a project.
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COVID-19 Statement During the COVID 19 restrictions, it is the intention of RED Construction Group to continue to provide our clients and our supply chain partners with our usual high levels of service and commitment. We plan to ensure that site teams can operate safely and that the working environment is controlled to ensure, as far as possible, that the spread of the Coronavirus is contained. Staff who are not allocated to a specific project and administration/tender teams will work from home utilising a range of IT software and hardware enabling on-line meetings and rapid information exchange. Should site staff, unfortunately, need to self-isolate we plan to be able to provide back-up during the isolation period from those colleagues working at home. Meetings will still be held in the office or externally where essential. These meetings will be strictly in line with any Governmental guidance. It is a challenging time for us all.
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