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

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Another story: The Weald & Downland gridshell ten years on

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Gridshelter Futures II: the Weald & Downland Museum gridshell

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

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