Family news and thanks for gifts. Letter has been dictated and was not written by Julian. Item has been torn in two.

In French and English.

In French and English.

The item contains a set of photographs of the completed development. Aspects of the building covered include, stairwells, the mezzanines/heating ducts, the building entrance, and the office space. File consists of 37 35mm slides in 10 plastic wallets.

Digital Computer Centre, for Digital Equipment Company, Reading, 1979-1981. In June 1979, Terry Farrell was commissioned to carry out a feasibility study for the use of a speculatively built industrial shed on which Digital Equipment Company had taken out a long lease. The adapted building inverted the traditional concern for the external skin of industrial architecture as the shell already existed. Instead, Farrell focused on providing a series of independent objects within the shell that could be built with minimum interruption to the existing building, at the least cost, and greatest speed.

The final building used an open-plan solution on two levels. The decision was taken to insert a long thin mezzanine inside which was structurally independent from the existing building shell. Adapting to a low budget, much of which had to be spent on services and the computer room, it was this mezzanine that became the focus of the identity of the building. The heating system was suspended from the balustrade of the mezzanine, in prime view. It was painted lilac blue, with the enclosing walls painted in various shades of harmonious grey. Pairs of heating units were hung from the roof, with the fresh air ducts and flues cutting through the roof. Either side of the heater assemblies were vertical connectors to the horizontal balustrade ducts. These formed processional archways to the mezzanine, penetrated by the stairs and bridge.

Construction Partners:
Quantity Surveyor: Michael F Edwards and Associates

Collection of photographs of drawings planning the development of a new office for the Digital Equipment Company. The development is focusing on developing an internal struc inside a pre-existing industrial shed. The focus of this internal structure is a long central mezzanine with heating ducts protuding perpendicular to it. Nine of the drawings focus on this mezzanine. This includes 3D sketches and detailed drawings of the ducts. The remaining thirteen drawings cover a variety of aspects of the development including rough sketches, external building sketches of the courtyard and trellis, floorplans, cross sections, phasing diagrams and 3D cutaways. Contains 22 35mm slides in 6 wallets

Diploma, The Royal College of Art London, Awarded to Leonard Evetts 21 July 1933.

Directional Traffic Survey 1953. County Surveyor's Report. Observations by Thomas Sharp.