T5 Hilton – New Hotel

The main contractors: Sisk, EPR Architects and Tonik Design.

The luxurious Sofitel London Heathrow has opened its doors for business, offering high-quality 5-star accommodation for those travellers flying from Terminal 5.

(PRWEB) August 10, 2008 — By combining first-class service with surroundings of elegance and refinement, the Sofitel London Heathrow – which cost £180 million to construct, offers 605 bedrooms. The glamorous 5 star Sofitel hotel was designed by architect Stephen Williams, who previously created the Conrad Hotel in Chelsea Harbour.

This will be a unique airport hotel due to its extensive landscaped areas, with existing river feature, which make the location not just suitable for the Terminal 5 Airport / Conference users, but also a destination location for the domestic market.
The architecture uses traditional materials of brick, stone and tile, which are appropriate for the landscape surroundings.

The hotel features provide fine dining restaurants and bar areas within an exciting 6 storey internal atrium with conference and leisure space within the wings of the hotel, theatre style cooking, a lobby bar, tea salon and a cocktail bar, as well as a state of the art Health Spa and Gym and extensive undercover car parking.

The hotel is connected to Terminal 5 via a covered walkway.
Should you need terminals 1,2,3,4, we advise you to take the Heathrow Express from Terminal 5 to your required terminal, which is free of charge.
For Terminal 4 you will need to change trains again at Heathrow Central and take the Heathrow Connect train to Terminal 4.
Both Heathrow Connect and Heathrow Express trains run every 15 minutes and are
free for the 5 minute journeys between Terminal 5, Central and Terminal 4.

Heathrow Terminal 5 – First Flight

British Airways’ first woman pilot will fly the first plane to taxi up to Heathrow’s new £4.3billion Terminal 5.

Captain Lynn Barton, 51, who made history when she took the controls in 1987, will be flight commander on BA026 from Hong Kong, due in at 4.50am on Thursday.

Lynn, who got the news after returning from a holiday in Barbados said: “I’m absolutely thrilled. It’s a huge honour.”

Heathrow Airport Terminal 5

Terminal 5 is Heathrow Airport’s newest terminal. The building is on a 260-hectare site located on the western side of the airport, between the western ends of the northern and southern runways. The site was previously occupied by the former Perry Oaks sewage works, and lies to the east of the M25 motorway. Two artificial watercourses, the Longford River and the Duke of Northumberland’s River, originally ran through the middle of the site.

Used exclusively by British Airways, Terminal 5 is a state of the art building – the largest free-standing building in the UK. The glass and steel structure gives a feeling of space and significantly increases the building’s energy efficiency.
The design of the new terminal began in 1989, but government planning permission was only granted in November 2001. Construction began in September 2002, with earth works for the construction of the buildings’ foundation. A preparatory archaeological dig at the site found more than 80,000 artefacts. In November of the following year, work started on the steel superstructure of the main terminal building. By January 2005 the nine separate tunnels needed to provide road and rail access, and to provide drainage, were completed. In March of the same year, the sixth and final section of the main terminal roof was lifted into position, and in December the building was made weather proof. This roof could not have been lifted with conventional cranes because it would have penetrated vertically into the airport’s radar field. Therefore, the roof was assembled on the ground using smaller cranes, then lifted into place by eight custom-built towers, each fitted with two hydraulic jacks to pull the roof up. At peak there were around 8,000 people working on the construction site, whilst over the life of the project over 60,000 people have been involved.  The terminal was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II on the 14th March 2008 and was open to passengers on the 27th March 2008, with flight 26 from Hong Kong its first arrival. The first departure was Flight 302 to Paris at 06:20 GMT.

LIME STREET 51 – Willis Building

Lime Street 51 – denumit si Constructia Willis, dupa principalul chirias,  Willis Group Holdings (NYSE: WSH), broker de asigurare  la nivel mondial. Constructia, situata in centrul orasului Londra,  este un spectaculos  zgarie-nori cu 28 etaje, de 125 metri inaltime, avand o forma eleganta concava. Fiind o cladire proiectata pentru birouri deschise, cu terase acoperis expansive care oferă opinii largi asupra oraşului, realizeaza un perfect echilibru intre cerintele comerciale, nevoia de flexibilitate, şi respectul pentru lume a zonei-patrimoniului arhitectural celebru .

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