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Temporary basketball arena for the London 2012 Olympics
November 1st, 2011
Faster than you can yell foul, sports venues are shooting up in London’s Olympic Park in anticipation of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympics Games. This past June, the Olympic Basketball Arena, one of the largest temporary sports venues built, was the fourth structure to be completed more than a year before the international athletes land […]
London 2012 Olympics Water Polo Arena
November 1st, 2011
‘Reuse after done’ is the design motto for a prime venue in the Olympic aquatic sports category This temporary venue is one of several arenas specially designed to be dismantled and redistributed after the London 2012 Olympic Games. Designed by David Morley Architects (DMA), the Water Polo Arena features a distinctive silver wrap of PVC […]
Playa Vista bandshell lights up the park
November 1st, 2011
Playa Vista Central Park is a 3.6-hectare public park built on the historic site of Howard Hughes’ Los Angeles private airfield, where the famous wood and fabric airplane, the Spruce Goose, was built. But this park holds a structure that impresses as much as the Hughes airplane, and even looks like it might take flight. […]
Community college features colorful shades
November 1st, 2011
An Iowa community college culinary and hotel learning center ups the ambiance and educational value by adding colorful shades Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has built a solid reputation for high-quality training and education in an academic setting that replicates, to a surprising degree, actual business situations. The college, located on the outskirts […]
Taliesin West: a materials laboratory in the Sonoran Desert
November 1st, 2011
Frank Lloyd Wright, visionary architect of the late 1800s and mid 1900s, tested his radical design ideas on his personal projects before subjecting his clients to his design decisions. This experimental approach is one of the founding principles of Taliesin, the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture (FLWSA). Encouraged and guided by instructors, students at […]
Olympics venue wins public building award
October 27th, 2011
Hopkins Architects won the Prime Minister’s Better Public Building Award from the British Construction Industry Association in mid-October for their design of the London 2012 Velodrome. The Prime Minister’s Award takes into account a particularly wide range of criteria including whole-life cost, sustainability, economic and social value and cost in use, as well as the […]
Time-lapse video shows project installation
September 20th, 2011
We’ve shown you the still picture; now watch it in high speed Back in May we reported on the announcement that Situ Studio selected a natural-looking acrylic fabric donated by Glen Raven Custom Fabrics for a renovation of the Brooklyn Museum’s great hall. Situ Studio has posted a time-lapse video of the installation of the […]
Fabric-wrapped Planetarium Exhibit
September 1st, 2011
A new exhibit at Chicago’s Adler Planetarium is wrapped in fabric As part of its first major renovation since 1999, the Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum on the Chicago waterfront, enlisted Fabric Images Inc. to engineer and construct a tensioned fabric space portal and gallery area to its new Deep Space Adventure exhibit. The Clark […]
Tensioned-fabric city of the future
September 1st, 2011
Conceived as part of an imaginary Paris with its arteries connected to a metropolis of the future, la “Ville Intelligente”, designed by Jakob + MacFarlane architects, opened this June in Paris’ Park de la Villette like a vision of an orange spacecraft. The ephemeral Ville Intelligente appeared as part of an exposition of architecture and […]
Steel mesh bridge in Madrid
September 1st, 2011
French architect Dominique Perrault’s design of a footbridge (“Pasarela del Arganzuela”) links two banks of the Rio Manzanares in the heart of Madrid’s Manzanares lineal park and adjacent to his megastructure complex Caja Magica (2009). The 250m-long bridge’s helical form is clad in stainless steel mesh manufactured by GKD AG that permits both ventilation and […]