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  • Recycled sports—recycled memories?

    July 22, 2010 | Bruce N. Wright
    Now that the World Cup games in South Africa are over, what will happen to all the arenas? Read more…
  • Bale rings are a good way to control stresses in fabric roof at high or low points. Used at high points they must be covered to make the structure watertight. If used at low points, they can be used to gather rainwater and snow for redistribution on site.

    Beginnings

    July 1, 2010 | Bruce N. Wright
    The technology of fabric structures has evolved over the past 60 years (into a unique and specialized form of engineering and architecture) with its own jargon and “language” of details. Read more…
  • Fig. 1-Kriss Kennedy's design for a spherical inflatable lunar habitat, 1987-1989.

    For sale: space experience

    June 11, 2010 | By Bruce N. Wright
    In another example of the “Nothing New under the Sun” category, The New York Times reported in this week’s “Science Times” special section that an entrepreneur plans to build an inflatable spacecraft for habitation in outer space. Read more…

  • What’s the big idea?

    April 29, 2010 | Bruce N. Wright
    If necessity is the mother of invention, could inspiration be the mother of innovation? Read more…

  • Half full, NOT half empty

    January 13, 2010 | Bruce N. Wright
    This past year was tough on everyone. The good thing is, we can always improve. Read more…

  • The numbers game

    November 9, 2009 | Bruce N. Wright
    Finding meaning in life’s numbers and steady changes—most for the better Read more…

  • Abseiling, seiling, over the bounding…

    November 2, 2009 | Bruce N. Wright
    Tensioned fabric architecture has a wealth of unique words to discover, and like many new professions or technologies, the terminology is adapted from older technologies. Read more…

  • Shed-ing some light

    October 21, 2009 | Bruce N. Wright
    New York is the largest city in North America and, despite tight economic times, the country’s most rapidly changing city with steady development and reconstruction occurring throughout the metropolitan area. Read more…

  • Winterizing the sauna

    October 12, 2009 | Bruce N. Wright
    Found this interesting project on the international design and architecture portal called Architonic of a membrane-clad floating pool and sauna in Berlin. Read more…

  • Pretty in pink

    September 1, 2009 | Bruce N. Wright
    It has been four years since Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in a crippling blow. Much has been written about the aftermath of the destruction and of the painfully slow rebuilding process. One of the more visible efforts to help reestablish a community in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans (arguably the most devastated neighborhood of the city) has been movie actor Brad Pitt’s Make It Right (MIR) initiative. Read more…