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Projects and case studies featuring door canopies and surrounds. Inspiration and ideas to help you find the best solution for your project.

Green roof entrance canopy for NHS mental care unit
Handspring Design was commissioned by the client to design and make an entrance canopy for a new NHS mental care unit at Rotherham main hospital site. The client wanted a curvy timber structure with a green roof for a similar price to the glass and steel one proposed by the architect. Handspring developed the design using its signature steam
Bespoke metal entrance canopies for hotel
Leander manufactured and installed two new bespoke metal entrance canopies for a luxury hotel. Designed to match an existing canopy, and built using aluminium castings produced in Leander's foundry, the entrance canopies incorporate polycarbonate waterproof skins and drainage. Faultlessly and discretely installed by Leander's team on the
Glazed entrance canopies for Sainsbury's store
A Skyline patent glazing system with toughened glass was used to create two large feature entrance canopies at opposite ends of the Sainsbury's store in Matlock, Derbyshire- PROJECT
The Standard Patent Glazing Company
Glazed entrance canopy for Next retail store, Colne
A large entrance canopy was created for the Next retail store in Colne, Lancashire using Skyline Box glazing bars with laminated glass- PROJECT
The Standard Patent Glazing Company
Glazed entrance canopy - Tywyn railway station, Wales
Tywyn was one of The Standard Patent Glazing Company's smaller railway station glazing projects. A Heritage patent glazing system was used in the entrance canopy installed to improve the front of this minor railway station- PROJECT
The Standard Patent Glazing Company
Bespoke entrance canopy - John Deere Visitors Centre
Bailey Streetscene, working with Lindum Group, designed, manufactured and installed a bespoke awning canopy for the entrance of a new Visitors Centre for John Deere in Nottingham. Services provided: site liaison and logistics; bespoke design built to fit; installation. The canopy sits in front of the newly built glass-fronted showroom
Entrance canopy and play area shelter for primary school
NBB Outdoors were recently contacted by Burton CE Primary School as they were in need of two shelters, following advice and guidance changes in view of the pandemic. NBB Outdoors provided its Winterbourne Freestanding Shelter for two locations at the school: one to cover the school entrance, and one to provide a sheltered play area to extend a classroom to the outdoors
Timber entrance canopy with glazed green roof for residential home
Handspring designed, manufactured and installed a glazed timber canopy shelter with a green roof for a private residential home in Sheffield using UK-grown and sourced materials. The canopy provides a sheltered outdoor space for the client to enjoy
Miko worked with the new £4 million purpose-built Havelock Day Centre, a Centre for Independent Living (CIL), to create an 8m2 diamond-shaped entrance canopy. As well as being in keeping with the style of the building, the canopy also provides shelter for the minibuses that transport users to the centre- PROJECT
- Miko Shelter Solutions
- BCM manufactured a glass-reinfoced concrete (GRC) arch for installation near what was the Children's Hospital in St George's Mews. The side pillars were built in engineering brick and rendered to match the GRC unit which was located and bolted into the top of the piers. The archway was erected on a steel frame off site and craned into position in
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- BCM GRC
- Wilmott Dixon Construction approached Setter Shelters to use their expertise in the design and installation of a bespoke entrance canopy that had already had a specification laid out. Using their specialist knowledge of glulam timber, Setter designed a free-standing entrance canopy that sits on a pair of uprights, meeting at the roof frame
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- Setter Shelters
- Walsgrave Hospital in Coventry required cost-effective but elegant entrance canopies for three of its departments, as the original bespoke design was over budget. Aura customised its modular gullwing canopies to fix to the column spacing and curvature of the new building. This lightweight cantilevered structure met the significant engineering
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- Aura
Entrance canopy, Stafford University
Visit siteA 15x5m linked umbrella structure provided a feature entrance canopy for Stafford University. It included uplighting at night to create a striking visual impact- PROJECT
- Aura
- Britannia Architectural Metalwork was commissioned to supply a canopy for a Georgian house in Barnet, North London. The owner of the house wanted a porch that was in-keeping with the original architecture and period style of the building. The design was modelled on a canopy illustrated in the book "Small Georgian Houses and their Details
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- Britannia Architectural Metalwork
- Setter Shelters has been installing cutting-edge entrance canopies across Bedfordshire, in partnership with Scape and Kier Construction. Cotton End's recently constructed new school buildings needed modern entrance canopies to match their stylish design. We came up with an ingenious solution; a metal structure encased in a wood finish. This
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- Setter Shelters

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