The pull of the light: tensile structures are usually used for portable buildings or performance venues, but FTL Happold uses them in more traditional buildings too
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FTL Happold is a New York-based engineering, architecture and design company, integrated with Buro Happold, a British engineering practice. It is a specialist in technologies such as steel-cable and glass systems, woven fabric roofs, lightweight metal frames and composite plastics. Much of its work involves tensile structures, such as a travelling fold-up village, a travelling circus, and temporary facilities for the 1996 Olympic Games. The practice is headed by Todd Dalland and Nicholas Goldsmith, who believe that easily transportable structures make a global construction industry viable.
Publication Name: Architects' Journal
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0003-8466
Year: 1997
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Hawkins Brown/Roald Dahl
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The primary purpose of the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Center, an intensive mixed-use development, is to encourage children to enjoy the art of story-telling. Hawkins\Brown, reputed for delivering social-cultural buildings and community-based projects in the UK, set out to create an architecture, which would allow the exhibits to take central stage and provide inspiration for young minds.
Publication Name: Architects' Journal
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0003-8466
Year: 2005
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