Welsh Government office 2
Introduction
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Welsh Government office 2
Image: © Jonathan Wilkins Taken: 4 Mar 2011
When the new North Wales office of the Welsh Government was designed, great efforts were made to ensure an iconic outcome. Clad in 2470 square metres of heather-purple slate from the Penrhyn Quarry Image, the building evokes the galleries of a slate quarry and colour variations suggest the strata of the rock from which it is 'hewn'. The colour is offset by a green patina on copper alloy used for external features such as the 'brises-soleil', and a blue tinted glass in the screens at the ends of the galleries. The water space is an attenuation pond to collect rainwater runoff from the site and provide a thermal reservoir for air-conditioning. Public access to the grounds is not permitted, and the image was taken and published with the explicit permission of the Communication Team of the Welsh Government.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.283574
Longitude
-3.793605