Special project: Norwich Cathedral Hostry Visitor and Education Centre
This Project features bespoke heavy duty steel glazing bars supplemented with a mixture of Schuco curtain wall and door systems, bolted glass screens including an all glass, glazed link, between the old and new buildings and frameless automatic door systems installed into a gothic arch. A Vitral rooflight with opening vents also provides minimum glazing sightlines. Many difficult junctions of shaped glass interfacing with medieval stone walls and conical nodes of timber clad columns showcase Anglian Architectural attention to glazing detail as a feature of this impressive building.
| Location: | Norwich |
| Architect: | Hopkins Ltd |
| Contractor: | Morgan Sindall PLC |
| Value: | £650,000 |
| System: | Schuco Curtain Wall Schuco RS65 Doors Vitral GTS Aluminium rooflight Bolted glass Frameless auto doors 500kg acoustic glass units |
Aerial view
Roof view of Hostry showing Vitral rooflights
Automatic entrance door and curtain wall
Frameless glass automatic entrance door in curtain wall set behind original medieval wall.
Automatic entrance door and curtain wall
Frameless glass automatic entrance door in curtain wall set behind original medieval wall.
Curtain wall and Brise Soleil
Structural Glazed Curtain wall with timber Brise Soleil
Bolted glass
Bolted glass lift shaft, internal glass screen and walkway
Schuco doorset
Schuco doorset in acoustic glass screen. Note glass joint around conical column tops.
Curtain wall, Vitral rooflights
Steel curtain wall glass screen silicone bonded and Vitral rooflight with actuators.
Glass floor
Glass floor perimeter to medieval wall, curtain wall, Schuco doors, Vitral rooflight
Hostry exhibition area
The distant end of this area employs the clean glass lines of steel curtain wall to highlight the splendid backdrop of the heritage site beyond.
Norwich Cathedral Hostry Internal Space
Bolted glass, curtain wall, Vitral rooflights
