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Dec 13, 20070

DRAGONFLY:EMERGENT / Buro Happold

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Inspired by the cellular morphology of the wing of an insect, DRAGONFLY is a highly irregular grid-shell that cantilevers 35ft (10m) from its supports. Both the overall form and the patterning of tessellations were developed through an adaptive approach that looked for emergent force path and deformation characteristics.

Nov 27, 20070

Engineer Bill Baker Is the King of Superstable 150-Story Structures

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Seventy feet beneath the Las Vegas strip, in a construction pit that will become the Cosmopolitan Resort and Casino, Bill Baker is looking for local talent. Baker is the head structural engineer at Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, the famed building design firm responsible for the Sears Tower in Chicago, the Time Warner Center in New York, and scores of other colossal glass boxes across the globe.
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Nov 19, 20070

12 Blocks Project by Loom Studio

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Loom Studio have developed details of 12 Blocks, a project to develop new forms for the standard concrete block.

Nov 18, 20070

53 West 53rd Street by Jean Nouval

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Architect Jean Nouvel has unveiled his design for a new 75-story tower on a site next to the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Nov 16, 20070

Villa Man-Bow, Satoshi Okada

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The building is a villa for a film-production family in Tokyo. read more

Nov 15, 20070

Steel House, By Bruno

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Steel Fortress: Fort Knox doesn’t have anything on this fort.

Nov 8, 20070

Size+Matter: Amanda Levete

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The Size+Matter project on London’s South Bank is one of the focal points of the London Design Festival. In a bid to drag the focus south of the river and onto the ever-developing South Bank area, the London Design Festival commissioned two globally renowned British architects, read more

Nov 8, 20070