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 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 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
A leaf lined gridshell Glenn Howell’s Savill Garden turns gridshells into something slick A version of this piece was first published in Building For A Future Vol 16, Winter 2006/7