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Project Management. Construction Review. About us. It joins other contemporary buildings ranging from a privately-owned nuclear bunker in Norfolk to a former bus station in Milton Keynes on the list of modern edifices which enjoy protected status for their architectural significance. The roof, which at the time of its completion was the largest precast concrete structure in Europe, was designed to allow a number of the aircraft weighing several tons a piece, including a wartime B Flying Fortress bomber, to be suspended from the ceiling.
Historic England said that the architectural and historic interest of the building had persuaded it to set aside the normal minimum age of 30 years before listed status is considered. This site is special for the stories it tells about 20 th century air combat. In that spirit, the building is both a museum and memorial — the entrance is respectful, as if entering a tomb, which opens up to an airy, hangar-like space.
A year after it opened in , the museum, which also incorporates a newly-listed memorial to the pilots and crew of the more than 7, US aircraft lost during the war, was the surprise winner of the annual RIBA Stirling architecture prize, beating the newly-opened British Library. Among those to lend their support to the fundraising efforts were the actors Charlton Heston and James Stewart. The unwritten rule that buildings can only be granted listed protection once the dust of their construction has settled for three decades is subject to occasional and eye-catching exceptions.
It ranges from the offices of the Western Morning News newspaper completed in Plymouth in to a highly-sensitive subterranean structure built in by the US Air Force in Cambridgeshire for the servicing of surveillance equipment fitted to jets. The airfield was expanded and modernised in the s and s, when many of the barrack blocks, messes and institutes that so impressed the men of the 78th Fighter Group were built.
In Duxford became the first airfield to house the now-legendary Supermarine Spitfire. Duxford was home to a series of test and experimental units, including a flight of captured enemy aircraft, before the base was handed over to the Americans. They took part in escort and ground attack missions over Europe. Duxford continued to be a base for fighters after it was handed back to the RAF in Much of the concrete laid by the USAAF was added to, to create an airfield suitable for jet fighters.
This work included laying a new concrete runway. Duxford closed in It was decided that the airfield was too small for the newer generation of jets entering RAF service.
The Imperial War Museum moved in in , and alongside several partner organisations still operates the site as both a museum and an active airfield. A former military airfield, now part of the Imperial War Museum. The site was briefly used for military aviation in the military maneuvers of It was developed as a Training depot station in using German prisoners as labour. It was retained after World War One.
Its interwar role was as a training airfield then as a fighter station. In it became the first Royal Air Force station to receive Spitfire fighter aircraft. The airfield facilities, much of which were originally wooden, were rebuilt in stages between and Douglas Bader was Squadron leader at Duxford during part of that time after moving from Coltishall.
The base was used by Czech and Polish squadrons. Later it was used to evaluate and test new aircraft by the Air Fighting Development Unit. The Americans laid down a new longer runway. The post-war military use of the base for jet fighters entailed the further redevelopment and extension of a runway by It closed for operational flying in In the site was used for filming of a film entitled "The Battle of Britain"- during the course of which a real World War One aircraft hangar was destroyed.
After the site became part of the Imperial War Museum. One domestic building and small of groups technical buildings from World War One remain, but a larger number of Inter-war and World War Two period buildings have survived.
A conservation area has been proposed for the site. In their Thundetbolts, the 78th FG
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