From Engineering Timelines:
Early career of Ove Arup
1922–1923 | Working for Christiani & Nielsen, Hamburg office |
1923 | Moves to London office of Cristiani & Nielsen as chief designer |
1932–1933 |
Labworth Café: Architect: Ove Arup Labworth Cafe, Essex, UK Architect: Image courtesy of Arup Associates |
1933 | Gorilla House, London Zoo. Architect: Berthold Lubetkin, Tecton |
1934–1938 | Director and chief designer at J.L. Kier & Co |
1934–1935 | Highpoint I. Architect: Berthold Lubetkin, Tecton Highpoint I, London, UK Architect: Image courtesy of Berthold Lubetkin, Tecton, Engineering timelines |
Penguin Pool, London Zoo, UK Architect: Berthold Lubetkin, Tecton Photo: Image courtesy of Jane Joyce, Engineering timelines | |
1935 | Working-class residential flats. competition win |
1937 | Finsbury Housing Projects |
1937–1938 | Highpoint II. Architect: Berthold Lubetkin, Tecton |
Arup & Arup Ltd
1938 | Sets up Arup & Arup Ltd with Arne Arup, his cousin |
1938 | Finsbury Health Centre. Architect: Berthold Lubetkin, Tecton |
1943–1944 | Mulberry Harbour pierhead fendering with Ronald Jenkins |
1944 | Arcon prefabricated housing. Steel frame design |
1945–1951 | Brynmawr Rubber Factory. Architect: Architect's co-partnership |
1946 | April 1st, Arup & Arup Ltd dissolved |
Ove N. Arup consulting engineers
1946 | April 1st–6th, Ove N. Arup Consulting Engineers established |
1946 | Bus Station and Office, Dublin. Architect: Michael Scott |
Ove Arup & partners
1949 | Ove Arup & Partners established. Partners: Ove Arup, Ronald Jenkins, Geoffrey Wood, Andrew Young |
1949–1954 | Hunstanton Secondary Modern School. Architect: Alison and Peter Smithson |
1951 | Festival of Britain footbridge |
1951 | Aero Research factory, Duxford |
1951–1956 | Bank of England Printing Works. Architect: Easton & Robertson |
1953 | Ove Aup awarded CBE |
1955 | Ove Arup & Partners West Africa, and Ove Arup & Partners South Africa established |
1956 | Hallfield Primary School. Architect: Drake & Lasdun |
1956–1962 (Photo: The Editors) |
Coventry Cathedral. Architect: Sir Basil Spence Coventry Cathedral A vast but thin-skinned concrete roof structure supported by slender, tapering concrete columns whose bases are audaciously detailed where they meet the cathedral floor (http://www.claisse.info/structures.htm) |
1957 | TUC Congress Memorial Building. Architect: David du R. Aberdeen |
1957–1973 (Photo: Julian Evans) |
Sydney Opera House. Architect: Jørn Utzon The Sydney Opera House A performing arts centre which stages 1500 productions each year, attended by 1.2 million people. It is also a UNESCO World Heritage site visited by over 7 million people annually. Though certainly not without its dramas, the history of the project illustrates what can be achieved by the successful collaboration of Architect and Engineer (http://www.engineering-timelines.com/who/arup_O/arupOve8.asp) |
1959 | Ove Arup & Partners Rhodesia established |
1959–1960 | St James' Place, London. Architect: Sir Denys Lasdun |
1960 | Ove Arup & Partners Scotland established |
1960–1964 | Royal College of Physicians. Architect: Sir Denys Lasdun Royal College of Physicians, London Architect: Sir Denys Lasdun Photo: Image courtesy of Arup Associates |
1960–1964 | St Catherine's College, Oxford. Architect: Arne Jacobson |
1961–1963 | Kingsgate footbridge |
1961–1963 | Smithfield Poultry Market. Architect: T.P. Bennet & Son |
1962 | Falmer House, University of Sussex. Architect: Sir Basil Spence |
1963 | Arup Associates established as an architectural practice |
1963 | Ove Arup & Partners Ireland, and Ove Arup & Partners Sierra Leone established |
1964 | Ove Arup & Partners Australia established |
1965 | Ove Arup & Partners Nigeria, and Ove Arup & Partners Ghana established, West Africa dissolved |
1965–1970 | Snape Maltings Concert Hall. Architect: Arup |
1966 | Ove Arup awarded RIBA Gold Medal for Architecture |
1966 | Ove Arup & Partners Zambia, and Ove Arup & Partners Malaysia established |
1966 | UK partnership reformed as Ove Arup & Partners Consulting Engineers and Arup Associates |
1966 | Ove Arup awarded IStructE Maitland Medal |
1967–1972 | York Minster central tower underpinning York Minster Central Tower Underpinning, York, UK (Photo: Image courtesy of Arup Associates) |
1968 | Ove Arup & Partners Jamaica established |
1969 | Philip Dowson appointed partner |
1970 | Ove Arup knighted for services to architecture and engineering |
1970 | Ove Arup Partnership becomes parent firm to Ove Arup & Partners and Arup Associates |
1970 | Ove Arup & Partners Singapore established |
1971–1977 | Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. Architects: Rogers & Piano |
The work of Arup engineers such as Peter Rice who worked on the Pompidou Centre, embodies many of the values of the Arup philosophy. Not solely concerned with achieving functionality in the structure, he regarded an engaging, legible and comprehensible structural system as key to making a connection with the people who would use this very public building. Comprehensibility would mean accessibility. For Rice, evidence of the involvement of the creative individual in the structural design of a building was important, as this gave the building a personality which a more mechanistic approach to structure would not. (Image courtesy of Engineering timelines) |
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1973 | Ove Arup awarded IStructE Gold Medal |
1977 | Ove Aup Partnership reconstituted, trust ownership established |
1978–1985 | Lloyds of London HQ. Architect: Richard Rogers Partnership |
1979–1986 | Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank HQ. Architect: Foster and Partners |
1980 1981 |
Arup Acoustics established Broadgate development, London Broadgate, London |
No. 1 Finsbury Avenue, Broadgate Note the use of solar shading |
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1982 |
Gateway 2, Offices and Business Park Gateway 2 – Wiggins Teape Building, Basingstoke, UK An innovative, naturally ventilated building in a landscaped business park environment |
1985–1991 | Stansted Airport, Main Terminal. Architect: Foster and Partners |
1986 | Stansted Airport Main Terminal, UK Architect: Foster and Partners Photo: Image courtesy of Arup Associates Ove Arup elected Honorary Royal Academician |
1988 | February 5th Ove Arup dies |
1989 | The Ove Arup Foundation established |
Later notable Arup projects
1990–1994 | Kansai International Airport terminal building, Osaka Bay, Japan. Architect: Renzo Piano Building Workshop |
1992 | Ove Arup Partnership becomes a company owned in trust for the benefit of employees |
1996–2000 | Øresund Bridge linking Sweden and Denmark |
1997–2004 | 30 St Mary Axe (Swiss Re). Architect: Foster and Partners |
1998–2002 | Millennium Bridge, London. Architect: Foster and Partners |
1999 | Ove Arup Partnership becomes a limited company |
1999–2001 | National Museum of Australia, Canberra. Architect: Howard Raggatt, ARM |
1999–2007 | Terminal 4, JFK Airport, New York. Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill |
2000 2002 2004/2005 |
The name ‘Arup' adopted for the whole group The Etihad Stadium, Manchester The Etihad Stadium, Manchester Plantation Place, London |
2012 Kings Cross Station, London |
Kings Cross Station, London |
A £400 mn development and restoration project in central London See video on lighting design: http://www.arup.com/projects/kings_cross_station#!lb:/projects/kings_cross_station/kings_cross |