To give its employees a covered walkway between buildings and more places outdoors to take a break, the rapidly growing ...

Hudson Yards, the mega-development reshaping Manhattan’s Far West Side, needs little introduction; it has been both praised and vilified for its gigantic scale and contentious urban ethos. Regardless ...

It was late in the process that the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority and Vikings officials decided that $975 million was not enough to build a football stadium with both a retractable roof and ...

From biodomes to Disney resorts, “Sheds” and stadiums, ethylene tetrafluoroethylene, better known as ETFE, has become the material of choice for architects designing a venue for the spectacular.

One of the key features of the official concept design of the $715 million Macquarie Point stadium is a 'big plastic roof'. The roof would be an Australian first, and is a non-negotiable feature for ...

This structure was made of PTFE and glass but the principles would still apply for ETFE and other materials. The shape of the structure traps more of the heat near the roof and enables the floor and ...

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The roof structure comprises a grid of interconnecting hexagons which are formed from a series of 193.7mm diameter CHS tubes connected by cast steel nodes, each of which connects three CHS tubes to ...

Beijing's major Olympic project, the National Aquatics Center saw the first pneumatic cushion installed on its wall on August 1. As a result of modern design, the Olympic venue for swimming, diving, ...

Movie: in this exclusive video filmed at the unveiling of the 15th Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, architects José Selgas and Lucía Cano explain how their structure plays with coloured, translucent and ...