With the high cost of building residential and commercial houses, innovative minds are always coming up with ways to make construction projects more bearable. A cheaper and emerging way to build a ...

custom assembly of concrete, steel cable net, polymer textile formwork, heating and cooling coils, insulation, and thin-film photovoltaic cells The rooftop structure rises about 24 feet high, ...

The distinctive shell structures form part of what was Norwich Sports Village, which opened in Hellesdon in 1988 [John East/Twentieth Century Society] A leisure centre's "majestic" concrete domes ...

Digital design and fabrication techniques allowed researchers in Switzerland to create a curvy, super thin concrete roof that will one day help a residential unit produce more power than it consumes.

Throughout the 20th century, a number of innovators experimented with fabric as a flexible membrane for the support of fluid concrete, forming structural members. Significant among the early ...

Arup's original proposal involved supporting all the retained structure with steel frames and then excavating the basement as an open pit. Designing the elaborate scheme "allowed us to specify what ...

HiLo is the eighth experimental building module completed at the modular and perpetually metamorphosing NEST outside of Zurich. The site is used as a proving ground for construction and energy ...