Remarkable Structures /

Contents
Section 1
Introduction
Section 2
Case Studies
1 TIS & Partners: Park keeper's flat and public lavstories, Shunguicho, Hyogo Prefecture (Shuhei Endo Architect Institute)
Buro Happold: Millennium Dome, Greenwich, London (Richard Rogers Partnership and Imagination Ltd)
3 Buro Happold: Japan Pavilion, Expo 2000, Hanover (Shigeru Ban with Fres Otto)
Anthony Hunt Associates: Eden Project, Bodelva, Cornwall (Nicholas Ginmshaw & Partners)
5 Anthony Hunt Associates: Great Glasshouse, National Botanic Garden of Wales, Carmarthenshire (Foster & Partners)
6. Ove Arup & Partners: William Hutton Younger Dynamic Earth Centre, Edinburgh (Michael Hopkins & Partners)
7 Wundlinger Associates: Rose Center for Earth and Space, American Museum of Natural History, New York (Polshek Partnership Architects)
8 Structural Design Group: Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo (Rafael Vinoly)
Ove Arup & Partners with Braschel & Partner: Mercedes Benz Design Centre, Sindelfingen (Ranzo Piano Building Workshop)
10. Ove Arup & Partners: Lords Media Centre, London (Future Systems)
11 Schlaich, Bergermann & Partner: Spandau Station, Berlin (von Gerkan, Marg & Partner)
12. Neil Thomas of Atelier One: Tower of Babel, Milennium Dome, Greenwich, London (Mark Fisher)
13 Diewhurst McFarlane: Pavilion, Broadheld House Glass Museum, Kingswinford, West Midlands (Design Antenna).
14 Matthew Wolls of Techniker: Orangery, Prague Castle, Prague (Eva Jiricna Architects)
15 Santiago Calatrava: City of Science, Valencia
15 Ingenieursbureau Zonneveld: Waterland, Burgh-Haamstede (Lars Spuybroek (NOXArchitekten) and Oosterhuis.nl)
17 Skidmore Owings & Merrill (Chicago office): Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao (Frank O. Gehry & Associates)
18 M.G. McLaren and Buro Happold: Carlos Moseley Music Pavilion, New York (FTL)
19 Jane Wernick of Ove Arup. Allot & Lomax, Atelier One and Infragroep: London Eye, London (Marks Barfield)
20 Whitby & Bird with Specht Kalleja & Partners: Stock Exchange and Chamber of Commerce, Berlin
(Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners)
21 Robert Nijsse of ABT: Educatorium, Utrecht University, Utrecht (Rem Koolhaas and Christophe Comubert)
22 Conzett Bronzini Gartmann: Traversina and Suransuns footbridges, Viamala Gorge
23 Marc Mimram: Solférino Bridge, Pans
24 Julius Natterer: Expo Roof, Hanover (Herzog + Partner)
25 Paul Muller with RFR: Hall F, Charles de Gaulle International Airport, Terminal 2. Paris (Paul Andreu, ADP)
Project credits
Index
Picture credits and acknowledgements

Some time towards the end of the twentieth century structural engineering shifted gear. An obvious part of the change was that structural engineering had made a significant move away from its traditional role of under-acknowledged handmaiden of the art of building. In the new aligament many structurat engineers had become comfortable with the analysis and resolution of complicated, son-rectilinear buliding forms. For engineers that is more significant than it sounds. For in the 1950s, at the beginning of the change, the physics and mathematics of conventional engineering analysis still stood four-square on the foundations laid down by the great scientists of the seventeenth century Enlightenment: Galileo, Hooke, Newton and especially Leibniz, whose accessible differential calculus became the tool for the structural analysis of regular geometric building forms. Although Moderniat architecture saw itself as pioneering new forms and materials, it was just as much an architecture of right angles and regular geometry as the architecture it rejected. So too, the new favoured Modernist materials had different moduli of elasticity and different bending, shear and deflection strengths from the conventional architectural building materials of the past, yet there was nothing particularly new about the way they were analyzed.

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