dRMM and their ‘way sexier’ CLT story By making CLT synonymous with their studio image, London’s dRMM have become the UK’s foremost 21st timber studio Part of the in-depth dRMM CLT journey themed section – In Unstructured extra 9 CLT futures themed edition – 2018
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
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 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
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 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
PV’s plus timber FCB Studio’s timber space frame lightens the load at the Earth Centre, Doncaster In Annular – an earlier version of this piece appeared in Building for A Future, volume 11, no 2 Spring 2002