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
John Makepeace
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
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
Return of the Cruck-Frame: Homegrown and Re-invented:
Return of the Cruck-Frame: Homegrown and Re-invented: The revival of the age-old cruck-frame in two projects, Alec French Architects Sheepdrove Biodiversity Centre and Ben Law’s Prickly Nutwood, reflects a spectrum of what’s possible In Unstructured 3
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
Into phase 2 – Flimwell moves on
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
Return of the Forests
Return of the Forests Wood research in Scotland, Napier University’s Centre for Timber Engineering, Reforesting Scotland and Malcolm Chrisp and Charles Gulland’s roundwood experiments In Annular – part 3 of a series on the return of timber to Scottish building and architectural culture –A version of this piece appeared in Building for a Future vol … Read more