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Discussion: Innovative Concepts for Mixed Uses
Monostructures and the separation of functions have been determining factors of city development in Europe since the Athens Charter. Increasingly, how...
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Specialist know-how: Experimental studies on the construction of doubly curved structures
It is easy to design free-form building envelopes on the computer. Curved structures also offer the advantage of an efficient, spatial load trans...
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Technology: The New Wildspitzbahn on the Pitztal Glacier
Building in a glacial region of the Alps poses special challenges with respect to the extreme temperature fluctuation, wind force, snow loads and the ...
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Technology: From the Construction of a Building to the Design of the Processes involved
For every task with which it is confronted, architecture knows an almost endless number of solutions, whereas engineers can draw on only a limited ran...
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Temporary Local Government Offices in London
Though designed as temporary local government offices to a budget of only 2.3 million, the building was not to have a provisional character. Seven thr...
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Studio Extension in Olot
Situated in the historic centre of Olot in Spain, the scheme involved the refurbishment of a 6x5m courtyard space. Here, a studio and sauna were inser...
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