Clearview National April 2017 - Issue 185 | Page 88

ALUMINIUM
City Landmark Revival
Bringing a tired 1970s landmark office building back
to life, architectural aluminium systems from Technal
have been installed at Nine Bond Court in Leeds
to create the high specification and contemporary
exterior this prestigious commercial address deserves.
» » LOCATED IN THE HEART
of Leeds’ Commercial Quarter,
12-storey Bond Court has been
a city centre landmark building
since it was built in 1976.
Constructed, in its day, to a
very high standard, the Tudor
brick and Baltic Brown granite
external envelope, coupled with
original bronze-coloured glazing
and brown back painted spandrel
panels, epitomised the design of
this controversial architectural
era. So much so, its dominant
appearance led people to refer to
it as ‘the brown building’.
The latest phase of
improvement to the building has
been designed by Leeds-based
Think Architecture + Design,
and involved the comp