Designed by foster and partners the roof transformed the museum s inner courtyard into the largest covered public square in europe.
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The courtyard at the centre of the british museum was one of london s long lost spaces.
Free and open every day to visitors the great court is one of london s most unique spaces.
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.
The graceful glass and steel roof manages both to respect the classical architecture of the original building and to provide a gentle counterpoint to it.
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.
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Designed by foster and partners the roof transformed the museum s inner courtyard into the largest covered public square in europe.
Because of the geometry of the quadrangle each glazing panel is a unique size.
Glass roof covering the british museum great court in london uk.
The glass roof was pitched at 3 degrees and linked by bespoke designed aluminium framework.
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In the original robert smirke great court design the courtyard was supposed to be a garden.
It is the largest covered square in europe.
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.
Directly beneath this a walk on glass rooflight was installed on top of an existing steel frame comprising of 160 glazed sections measuring 830mm x 740mm.
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Originally a garden soon after its completion in the mid nineteenth century.