Art Barn

Art Barn  FCB Studios completion of the Art & Design Building illustrates the changes in sustainable architecture two decades after their Olivier Theatre rewrote oak framing’s rules In Architecture Today– Feb 2017

The rise of the robots

The Rise of the Robots Achim Menges and Stuttgart’s ICD, Gramazio/Kohler and Hooke Park’s Woodchip Barn In Blueprint347 – July/August 2016 – PDF

The Cult of the Gridshell

The Cult of the Gridshell The wave of gridshells across Britain by WilkinsonEyre, Glen Howells, Edward Cullinan Architects, and others, illustrates how the singular structural form has been embraced by UK architects and engineers  Feature for Detail Green May 2013

After Weald & Downland: the next chapter in Cullinan Architects timber path

After Weald & Downland: the next chapter in Cullinan Architects timber path Edinburgh’s Inverleith Botanic Gardens Visitor Centre floating diagonal grid lamella canopy was the result of a  long journey by Cullinan’s to realise this timber shell structure In Unstructured 5 – 2012 – Rewilding the Structural, Reweaving the Sculptural – Shells/Scales/Baskets/Weaves Sussex Gridshells ten … Read more

Another story: The Weald & Downland gridshell ten years on

Another story: The Weald & Downland gridshell ten years on Steve Johnson, project architect at Cullinan’s Architects on his six year journey making Britain’s first gridshell building In Unstructured 5 – 2012 – Rewilding the Structural, Reweaving the Sculptural – Shells/Scales/Baskets/Weaves Sussex Gridshells ten years on feature

Bere Essentials

Bere Essentials Bere Architects Passivhaus evangalism spills over into timber In Unstructured 5’s Passivhaus themed section

How Massive Wood Came to Britain

How Massive Wood Came to Britain The story of how a few mission driven sustainability architects, engineers and left field timber folk propelled CLT into the UK’s construction sector In Detail Green 2011.1 Spring

Murray Grove

Murray Grove At the birth rites of tall timber: WaughThistleton’s Stadthaus set the tall timber agenda rolling Architectural Journal 08.05.2008 – a building review feature

Gridshelter Futures I: A prehistory to the Sussex gridshells

Gridshelter Futures I: A prehistory to the Sussex gridshells The history of Gridshell structures in the latter half of the 20th century demonstrates its unusual and singular past. In Unstructured 2 – 2004