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Vertical green
May 1st, 2009
By Clare Miflin The global population is increasing rapidly, and by 2010 more than 50%, some 3.3 billion people, will live in urban areas. While cities offer opportunities for living with a low ecological footprint, they suffer from pollution, noise and remoteness from nature. Integrating vegetation into the urban fabric improves these quality of life […]
Architects have their day in the Stuttgart
May 1st, 2009
The international trade fair for roller shutters, gates and sun shading draws wide interest. By Gerd Schmid Editor’s note: Every three years in Stuttgart, Germany, the convention center holds the largest European trade fair for the building trades of rolling shutters, gates and sun shading systems. The show, called the R+T (Rolladen + Toren) was […]
Hotel features metal mesh façade
May 1st, 2009
Mexican architect Enrique Norten and TEN Arquitectos recently announced five new commercial and residential buildings in New York City, including Habita Chelsea Hotel on West 27th Street. The hotel features a metal mesh façade and exterior glass elevator that rises up through a slender glass column. The hotel’s ground level contains both a brasserie and […]
Dubai cricket stadium features self-cleaning membrane
May 1st, 2009
Dubai Sports City, the world’s first purpose-built sports city, now contains a 25,000-seat cricket stadium constructed of steel frames and a fiberglass-woven PTFE membrane with a self-cleaning topcoat of titanium dioxide (TiO2). Birdair Inc., Buffalo, N.Y., installed the 600-tonne steel truss system and 20,000m2 of membrane, completing the S3 Cricket Stadium at the end of […]
Exhibit pays homage to GaudÃ
May 1st, 2009
Tension fabric exhibit specialists Transformit designed and constructed part of a traveling exhibition, “The Realism of Gaud“ and the Hope of Europe.” The commission came from Magrada Proyectos, Barcelona. The good working relationship on the project between the two companies led to the recent announcement that Magrada Proyectos is Transformit’s distributor in Spain and Portugal. […]