The Waterside building in Harmondsworth, UK in the international headquarters of the airline British Airways. Harmondsworth is a place in the London Borough of Hillingdon nearby to London Heathrow Airport. ... British Airways (LSE: BAY, NYSE: BAB) is the largest airline of the United Kingdom and the third largest in Europe (behind Air France-KLM and Lufthansa), with more flights from Europe across the Atlantic than any other operator. ...

It is an novel design comprising six limestone clad four-storey horseshoe-shaped buildings which all back on to an internal 'street' that runs inside an atrium. The street is paved in granite slabs and cobblestones, has bridges which cross it overhead, linking the individual buildings, and is looked over by balconies which lead off the bridges. The street houses a health centre, hairdressing and beauty salon, florists, travel centre, supermarket, bank, restaurants and a 400-seater auditorium. In Anatomy, atrium refers to a structure of the heart. ... A cobblestone-covered street Cobblestones are stones used in the pavement of early streets. ...

The 9,000m² gross internal area is mostly open plan offices, no personal space is assigned, although enclosed areas are available for meetings and study. OFFICE WORK IS SHITE!! NEVER WORK IN ONE! end of. ...

Waterside constituted one of the UK's largest building projects. Construction started in September 1995. The project also involved clearing and landscaping the site which was derelict to create a large public park and nature reserve, with a visitor centre.

The building opened December 1997 to May 1998. The first section of the public park was opened in June 1998, with the remainder in 1999. Construction costs were £17.4m

The architects were Niels Torp, supported by RHWL . The Building Services Engineers were Cundall Johnston and Partners, the Structural Engineers Buro Happold and the Construction Managers MACE . // Aerial view of the Millennium Dome Buro Happold is a professional services firm providing engineering consultancy, design, overseas development consultancy, planning, project management and consulting services for all aspects buildings, infrastructure and the environment. ...

Waterside is located at 51°29′08″N, 0°29′10″W.

References

• Case study on BA Waterside at the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) – accessed November 2006.