Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The former Norwich Sports Village building is made up of concrete shell structures [Historic England Archive] A "remarkable" ...

How do you shape concrete into seemingly weightless organic wisps without the use of heavy complex molds? Yarn. Miles and miles of yarn, knitted together using a brand new digital fabrication ...

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, ...

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 ...

Let's think of a paper sheet. If we tried to stiffen it from its primary state, it couldn't support its own weight. However, if we bend it, the sheet achieves a new structural quality. The shells act ...

Félix Candela’s Los Manantiales Restaurant at Xochimilco, Mexico City in 1958 (all photos courtesy Gallery 400 unless otherwise noted) Félix Candela’s 1957 plan for La Jacaranda Cabaret, Presidente ...