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The rise of the robots

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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

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

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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

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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

Brave New Re-Generation

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Brave New Re-Generation Coventry’s Herbert Gallery’s new wood-glass dia-gridshall atria is only the latest in PRS Architect’s series of pioneering engineered timber set up pieces In Annular – feature 2009

The embrace of timber: a new age in office building design

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The embrace of timber: a new age in office building design Timber office design at Neals Yard Remedies, Gillingham, Dorset and the Eden Project, Cornwall Annular – A version of this piece first appeared in Building for A Future, Vol 16, no 1

Gridshelter Futures II: the Weald & Downland Museum gridshell

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Gridshelter Futures II: the Weald & Downland Museum gridshell The first Gridshell to be completed since Frei Otto’s first Mannheim 1974 Multihalle building, in the aftermath of the opening in 2001, the Downland gridshell became a cult building and its architects, Edward Cullinan Architects, best-known project In Unstructured 2 – 2007 – (a version of … Read more

A leaf lined gridshell

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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

Into phase 2 – Flimwell moves on

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Into phase 2 – Flimwell moves on Douglas fir Cruck-Frame Offices replace Sweet Chestnut at the Woodland Enterprise Centre A version of this piece first appeared in Green Building, Volume 17 no 3, Winter 2007

Gridshelter Futures I: A prehistory to the Sussex gridshells

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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

If carpenter ants built future systems

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If carpenter ants built future systems As stand-out structure at Doncaster’s turn of the millennium Earth Centre space frame canopy showed what lightweight timber structures could do In Fourth Door Review 6 – 2003