Wednesday, 2 July 2008

Downland Gridshell - Edward Cullinan Architects and Buro Happold Engineers

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wd2All the architecture of this Sussex, UK, museum is in the shell, made from long thin oak laths 'draped' into place over supporting arches.

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2 comments:

  1. Superb--and our local council's building inspector would have as much chance of understanding the engineering behind that as a monkey would of understanding Hubble.

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  2. Yeh, this is awesome stuff PC. I knew there was another reason for reading your blog - besides reading my own posts and wondering why nobody was commenting ;-)

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