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Style meets substance in the design and materiality of tensile architecture

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Photos courtesy Huntsman By David Peragallo Tensile architecture, also known as tensile structures or fabric architecture, is becoming a popular choice for applications such as stadiums, airport hubs, train and bus stations, exhibition halls, event pavilions, and temporary structures such as festival tents.

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Tensile architecture: Where substance meets style

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Photos courtesy Huntsman By David Peragallo Tensile architecture, also known as tensile structures or fabric architecture, is becoming a popular choice for applications such as stadiums, airport hubs, train and bus stations, exhibition halls, event pavilions, and temporary structures such as festival tents.

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MATERIALS FOR FORMWORK

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Mon, 1 Oct 2012 About Jobs Connect Groups Forums Toolbar SMS Alerts RSS Feed Search The Constructor Subscribe by E-Mail to receive latest updates. It is easily cut to shape on site, and if handled and stored carefully, it can be used many times. Note the different thickness: A standard plywood thickness on site is 18mm.

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Design and specification considerations: Stand-alone canopy structure systems

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Freestanding canopy systems can be specified for numerous project applications, fabricated with a choice of materials, and engineered to meet a range of performance requirements. For a stand-alone canopy’s structural columns, steel is the material of choice for its variety of reliable performance characteristics. By Kevin Smith.

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Custom exterior fabricator A. Zahner unveils free façade design software for architects

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The free software platform called ShopFloor , launched earlier today, contains a suite of intuitive tools for building complex architecture. Body Image: read more.

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Expanding the exterior footprint

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While cities occupy just three percent of global land area, by 2050 they will be home to two-thirds of the world’s inhabitants according to Gensler’s, 75 percent of the world’s population will live in cities, according to Gensler’s Aleksander Sasha Zeljic in a June 2018 interview with Architectural Products magazine.

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Lessons learned from 70 years of building cities

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Airports Laboratories Office Buildings Designers / Specifiers / Landscape Architects Architects Adaptive Reuse The Changing Built Environment Urban Planning As Sasaki looks back on 70 years of practice , we’re also looking to the future of building cities. From buildings and interiors, innovative ideas can transform the fabric of cities.

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