A home for 10million archive records
May 2017

Aluminium curtain walling, windows and doors from SENIOR ARCHITECTURAL SYSTEMS have been specified for use on the new West Yorkshire History Centre in Wakefield.

The new home of the West Yorkshire Archive Service has been designed by architects Broadway Malyan and built by Bardsey Construction Ltd, with manufacture and installation of the fenestration package by Aire Valley Architectural Aluminium Ltd.

The upper part of the building features perforated metal cladding which appears to ‘float’ above the fully glazed lower levels. The design of the ground floor office and exhibition space has Senior’s SF52 aluminium curtain wall system and SPW600 tilt and turn thermally broken aluminium windows. To create the seamless glazed façade of the lower part of the building, Senior’s SPW500 aluminium commercial doors have also been incorporated.

The building will store over 10 million archive records across three floors and as such, it was essential to create the ideal internal environment that would preserve and protect the historical documents.

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