Gridshells by Shukhov, Bauersfeld, Fuller, Otto, Foster ...
I suggest to make the review of Lattice shell structures (gridshells)
1. Sir Norman Foster, 30 St Mary Axe ("The Gherkin", Swiss Re), London
2. Sir Norman Foster, Queen Elizabeth II Great Court, London
3. Massimiliano Fuksas, Vela, Milan
4. Buckminster Fuller, Montreal Biosphère, Canada
5. Takenaka Corporation, Nagoya Dome, Japan
6. Hadi Simaan, Aspire Tower, Doha, Qatar
7. Vladimir Shukhov, Hyperboloid steel tower-gridshell, Moscow, 1922
"Arkhitektura i mnimosti": The origins of Soviet avant-garde rationalist architecture
in the Russian mystical-philosophical and mathematical intellectual tradition."
by English, Elizabeth Cooper, Ph.D.,
University of Pennsylvania, 2000, 264 pages; AAT 9989589.
8. IBA, 610m - Guangzhou TV & Sightseeing Tower, China
9. NIKKEN SEKKEI, Kobe Port Tower, Japan
10. Hodder Associates, Corporation street bridge, Manchester, UK
11. ARCHIMATICA, Pisanka building, Kiev, Ukraine
12. Nicholas Grimshaw, Eden Project, Cornwall, UK
13. Frei Otto, Olympic Stadium (Munich), Germany
14. Herzog & de Meuron, Beijing National Stadium, China
Many photos of Lattice shell structures:
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=339347
I suggest to make the review of Lattice shell structures (gridshells)
1. Sir Norman Foster, 30 St Mary Axe ("The Gherkin", Swiss Re), London
2. Sir Norman Foster, Queen Elizabeth II Great Court, London
3. Massimiliano Fuksas, Vela, Milan
4. Buckminster Fuller, Montreal Biosphère, Canada
5. Takenaka Corporation, Nagoya Dome, Japan
6. Hadi Simaan, Aspire Tower, Doha, Qatar
7. Vladimir Shukhov, Hyperboloid steel tower-gridshell, Moscow, 1922
"Arkhitektura i mnimosti": The origins of Soviet avant-garde rationalist architecture
in the Russian mystical-philosophical and mathematical intellectual tradition."
by English, Elizabeth Cooper, Ph.D.,
University of Pennsylvania, 2000, 264 pages; AAT 9989589.
8. IBA, 610m - Guangzhou TV & Sightseeing Tower, China
9. NIKKEN SEKKEI, Kobe Port Tower, Japan
10. Hodder Associates, Corporation street bridge, Manchester, UK
11. ARCHIMATICA, Pisanka building, Kiev, Ukraine
12. Nicholas Grimshaw, Eden Project, Cornwall, UK
13. Frei Otto, Olympic Stadium (Munich), Germany
14. Herzog & de Meuron, Beijing National Stadium, China
Many photos of Lattice shell structures:
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=339347