The Arup Story

From Engineering Timelines:

1. http://www.engineering-timelines.com/timelines.asp
2. http://www.engineering-timelines.com/who/arup_O/arupOve.asp
3. http://www.engineering-timelines.com/who/arup_O/arupOve12.asp
4. https://prezi.com/k9ab2jlvjfuc/copy-of-copy-of-contemporary-engineering-at-the-edge/

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

Ove N. Arup consulting engineers

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)
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
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