Enclosed under a spectacular glass and steel roof the court contains a number of sculptures from the museum s collection.
British museum great court roof.
At the centre of british museum sits the largest covered public square in europe the queen elizabeth ii great court.
The glass and steel roof is made up of 4 878 unique steel members connected at 1 566 unique nodes and 1 656 pairs of glass.
Brown stephen cook michael 2002.
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Trustees of the british museum.
He takes a business card and bends it into a segmented arch.
The british museum london queen elizabeth ii great court.
The roof of the great court is a triumph.
Detail zeitschrift für architektur baudetail v.
It is a hub at the centre of the museum complex providing modern galleries and education and visitor facilities including shops and a restaurant.
Sitting in the legendary reading room of the newly opened queen elizabeth ii great court at the british museum buro happold engineer stephen brown demonstrates the structural forces at work on the massive glass and steel roof which covers the two acre courtyard.
By opening up the lost.
Designed by foster and partners the great court is a two acre space enclosed by a spectacular glass roof with the world famous reading room in the middle.
Within the space there are information points a bookshop and café.
At the centre of the british museum is the great court the largest covered public square in europe.
Foster is not the first archi tect to come up with plans for a glass roof here.
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The court has a tessellated glass roof designed by buro happold and executed by waagner biro covering the entire court and surrounds the original circular british museum reading room in the centre now a museum.
The design and manufacture of the british museum great court roof.
At its heart is the magnificent volume of the reading room now a major exhibition space which for the first time in its history is open to all.
British museum great court roof using structdrawrhino another stunning innovative structure that has inspired similar projects since.
It is the largest covered square in europe.
Is enclosed by a spectacular glass and steel roof.
The great court at the british museum london wc1 opens december 7.