StructureCraft also notes that the bandshell is expected to serve as a near-term World Cup viewing venue and a longer-term ...
The single-storey building has a steel-framed wall and flatroofed perimeter structure which supports four timber gridshells. They are raised above the flat roof on canted kerto columns, set on steel ...
A mind-boggling number of parts and pieces clad Shigeru Ban’s new headquarters for Swatch in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland. Nearly 2,800 uniquely shaped facade panels cover the more than ...
Hosted on MSN
Building better, building beautiful: Novel method allows more architects to design attractive gridshell structures
A researcher from the University of Tokyo and a U.S.-based structural engineer developed a new computational form-finding method that could change how architects and engineers design lightweight and ...
Japanese architect Shigeru Ban likes to test the limits of materials. The Pritzker Prize–winner is perhaps best known for his work with cardboard tubes, using them to quickly and inventively shelter ...
Julia King, the AJ’s Emerging Woman Architect of the Year 2014, tells us about Edward Cullinan’s ‘radically simple yet technically perfect’ Downland Gridshell The AJ Buildings Library (TheAJBL.co.uk) ...
Architect who helped to develop the art of the timber gridshell My friend and colleague John Romer, who has died aged 68 of cancer, was a partner for 28 years at the architectural and planning ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results