Sotech - Case Studies
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Arts


Architect:
Ellis Williams Architects

Main Contractor:
HBG

System:
Hook pin Rainscreen

Finish:
Naturally Anodised J57S Aluminium

Standing alongside the already famous blinking eye Millennium bridge joining Newcastle with Gateshead, the Baltic Arts Centre houses the city’s contemporary arts museum. This 50 metre high, former flour mill has two specially adapted, high level viewing galleries and restaurant offering panoramic views of the newly regenerated quayside.

Sotech manufactured 5000m² of anodised aluminium cladding for this quayside regeneration centrepiece. The visitor centre is directly overlooked by the buildings three outward facing glass elevators. To enhance the aesthetic appearance of the visitor centre, its curved standing seam roof is cloaked with a secretly fixed, anodised aluminium rainscreen. At total of 2500m² of secret fix hook-on rainscreen cladding has been installed to the visitor centre walls and roof, gallery rooftop restaurant as well as to ancillary buildings. In addition to the external rainscreen cladding, a further 2500m² of anodised aluminium were provided to the internal elevator shafts.


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