Structural Designer
Buro Happold
Client Name
The Cutty Sark Trust
Location
London, United Kingdom
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Judge's comment: The very complex structural repairs of the Cutty Sark, verging on reconstruction, were needed to raise and re-support her on a system of diagonal steel struts thrusting against the wall of the dry dock, which had to be strengthened to take the forces. This extraordinary work needed some exceptional engineering.
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