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Product Review - Burlington Slate Ltd
Science Park mixes rough with the smooth - Burlington Slate Ltd
The construction of Liverpool Science Park by architects Falconer Chester Hall mixed science with chaos theory when it used Burlington's natural stone cladding to contrast with random walling stone as a means of delivering a new and modern 4500mē office facility designed to attract science and technology-based start-up companies.
Rough and smooth were mixed as Burlington's honed Kirkby blue-/grey cladding panels - set within an expressed stainless steel frame - delivered the building's clean line architectural style.
This contrasted with the random walling stone that features to the base of the Science Park and has been used to create a boundary wall to the development's new visitor centre and the garden area of the adjacent Metropolitan Cathedral.
Each Burlington panel features within a rainscreen grid that has been specially adapted to incorporate stainless steel fins that protrude outwards providing additional relief.