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How do you design an Olympic stadium? New exhibition explores style, structures and sustainability
by Kim Megson | 13 Oct 2016
The design and engineering of Olympic stadiums is the focus of a temporary exhibition opening today (13 October) at The Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland. Stadiums: Past and Future explores the facilities cities have built to host the Games – from the Olympia in Ancient Greece through to modern architectural icons such as Frei Otto’s Munich Olympic Stadium and Herzog and de Meuron’s Bird’s Nest in Beijing. Curated by Geraint
Are wall-crawling robots the builders of the future?
by Kim Megson | 21 Aug 2016
The next generation of buildings could be created by wall-crawling robots. That’s the view of robotics researcher Maria Yablonina, a graduate of the University of Stuttgart who has unveiled a way of using robot builders to create complex structures quickly, cheaply and efficiently. Yablonina’s project, Mobile Robotic Fabrication System for Filament Structures, has been developed with the university's Institute for Computational Design (ICD). Semi-autonomous wall climbing robots are programmed to
Alison Brooks' 'The Smile' demonstrates potential of hardwood megastructures
by Tom Anstey | 02 Aug 2016
Architecture studio Alison Brooks have created a banana-like structure for this September’s London Design Festival, due to sit in the grounds of the Chelsea College of Arts during the event. Aptly named ‘The Smile’, the curving urban structure is being built from cross-laminated tulipwood and has been created as a means to demonstrate the structural and spatial potential of that material, in addition to its artistic purpose. The American Hardwood
CLAD's concepts of the week: Two mile-high structures proposed
by Kim Megson | 27 Feb 2016
This week, two architecture studios have announced concepts for structures over a mile high. The first scheme, called The Mile, is from international design and innovation office Carlo Ratti Associati (CRA), who have proposed the world’s highest vertical park and observation deck. Developed together with German engineering firm Schlaich Bergermann & Partner (SBP) and British digital design studio Atmos, The Mile would be the tallest man-made structure ever created –
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