Tuc Congress House Courtyard Roof

The new rookery entrance on the south side of congress house.

Tuc congress house courtyard roof.

Tuc congress house courtyard roof the tuc headquarters is a listed building in great russell street bloomsbury london built in 1959. For more information please click here. In 2016 we designed and completed the installation of a highly transparent etfe roof over the internal courtyard which has enabled reinstatement of the original glass roof over the conference hall below and conservation of original fabric including an important sculpture by sir jacob epstein. In 1984 ian ritchie architects were invited by peter rice of arup in parallel with rice francis ritchie s involvement with la villette and the louvre pyramid to help conceive and subsequently in 1988 to develop the detailed design of the structure and glazing for 6000m 2 of new roofs to cover the three internal courtyards of the louvre s richelieu wing to create the museum s new sculpture courts proposed by i m pei partners in association with michel macary.

In 1988 it became one of the earliest post war. It was carved from a 10 ton block of roman stone and was originally backed by green carrara marble running up to the roof. Earlier phases include the installation of a steel and etfe roof canopy over the central courtyard where the tuc s seminal epstein war memorial pieta is displayed. In 2015 an etfe roof was installed over the internal courtyard which enabled the glass roof of the conference centre below to be reinstated and affords protection to the epstein statue.

The tuc headquarters were opened in 1958 and commemorates trade unionists who lost their lives in the world wars. It represented the tuc s post war drive in austere times to promote construction craftsmanship and the. This decayed and has been replaced by green tiles as an economy measure. Congress house was one of the earliest post war buildings to be listed at grade ii in 1988.

It contains a conference hall located under a courtyard in the centre of the building. Which save for the installation of a slightly incongruous curved etfe roof over the courtyard keeps to the spirit of the original endeavour. Top lighting of the hall is provided by glazed hexagonal coffers which form part of its space frame roof. We call it home but here are a few facts about congress house the workers and artists behind it and the communities from which materials were sourced.

Congress house headquarters of the tuc since 1958 was constructed as a memorial to the sacrifices made by trade unionists in two world wars. On the west wall of the courtyard a pyramidal screen of green marble acts as a backdrop for the tuc war memorial by jacob epstein 1955 6. The idea for the building came from a resolution at the 1944 congress.