• Thumbnail for Gridshell
    A gridshell is a structure which derives its strength from its double curvature (in a similar way that a fabric structure derives strength from double...
    10 KB (917 words) - 22:36, 5 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Weald and Downland Gridshell
    The Weald and Downland Gridshell (2002) is a building designed by Buro Happold and Edward Cullinan Architects for the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum:...
    3 KB (256 words) - 07:03, 21 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hyperboloid structure
    known as hyperboloids of revolution and hyperbolic paraboloids. The steel gridshells of the exhibition pavilions of the 1896 All-Russian Industrial and Handicrafts...
    14 KB (1,570 words) - 05:24, 23 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Savill Building
    gazebos." Hugh Pearman The building has a 'three-domed' sinusoidal-shaped gridshell roof of two layers of interlocking larch laths (50 × 80 mm) on a one-metre...
    5 KB (590 words) - 17:56, 30 May 2025
  • laboratory led to the development of the designs for the Mannheim Multihall gridshell and a number of landmark fabric structures in the Middle East and the...
    38 KB (3,200 words) - 21:01, 8 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Weald and Downland Living Museum
    sixteen staddle stones as an anti-vermin measure. The Weald and Downland Gridshell was constructed in 2000–2002. An innovative design built primarily to...
    47 KB (5,092 words) - 16:12, 12 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Lamella (structure)
    lamellae in rhombic form. As such it may be understood as a subset of gridshell type roof constructions. This roof style was designed by Zollinger to...
    3 KB (290 words) - 17:48, 7 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Alnwick Garden
    000 people. The pavilion and visitor centre feature a barrel-vaulted gridshell roof. The gardens include several water features as well as architectural...
    8 KB (627 words) - 18:09, 27 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for Shukhov Rotunda
    Novgorod, Russia. It was built in 1896 with a diagrid hanging cover (tensile gridshell – diagrid roof, Russian Empire patent No. 1894, dated March 12, 1899)...
    5 KB (419 words) - 19:15, 30 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Savill Garden
    The wooden Gridshell roof from inside the building....
    3 KB (311 words) - 17:13, 23 September 2022
  • Thumbnail for Singapore University of Technology and Design
    include the open-source Urban Network Analysis Toolbox for ArcGIS, the SUTD Gridshell Pavilion, samples of urban fabric in Bugis and Punggol in Singapore, and...
    13 KB (1,008 words) - 18:26, 25 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Shukhov Tower
    1922. The Shukhov tower is a hyperboloid structure (hyperbolic steel gridshell) consisting of a series of hyperboloid sections stacked on one another...
    11 KB (1,144 words) - 03:55, 21 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Vladimir Shukhov
    hyperboloid structures, diagrid shell structures, tensile structures, gridshell structures, oil reservoirs, pipelines, boilers, ships and barges. He is...
    22 KB (2,068 words) - 10:39, 27 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Queen Elizabeth II Great Court
    incorporated for disabled access to the upper levels of the museum. A new gridshell glass roof, designed and built by Austrian specialists Waagner-Biro, was...
    8 KB (974 words) - 11:42, 8 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Schlaich Bergermann Partner
    courtyard bears on the building's structure as little as possible. For this gridshell structure the common kitchen sieve was the inspiration: its quadratic...
    13 KB (1,546 words) - 14:44, 4 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Shukhov Tower in Polibino
    became the first hyperboloid structure in the world. The hyperboloid steel gridshell attracted attention of European observers. In particular, the British...
    6 KB (536 words) - 03:51, 9 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Shigeru Ban
    architect Frei Otto and structural engineers Buro Happold. The 72-metre-long gridshell structure was made with paper tubes. But due to stringent building laws...
    23 KB (2,344 words) - 01:15, 9 June 2025
  • Praemium Imperiale in Architecture 2015 – Pritzker Architecture Prize Gridshell "Biography: Frei Otto". The Hyatt Foundation. Archived from the original...
    15 KB (1,357 words) - 03:58, 13 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Museum of Hamburg History
    the construction of the covering was deferred. The design uses a steel gridshell. The Hamburg Observatory occupied the museum's current site from 1825...
    13 KB (1,268 words) - 19:20, 6 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for Dome
    Vladimir Shukhov was also an early pioneer of what would later be called gridshell structures and in 1897 he employed them in domed exhibit pavilions at...
    179 KB (21,370 words) - 21:08, 27 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for Timeline of Russian innovation
    Hyperboloid structure By Vladimir Shukhov, see also Shukhov Tower 1897 Gridshell By Vladimir Shukhov 1898 Polar icebreaker A polar icebreaker is an icebreaker...
    158 KB (17,387 words) - 04:37, 17 June 2025
  • largest nation pavilion at Expo. Japan – The Japanese Pavilion was a gridshell structure made out of recycled paper tubes that created a honeycomb-like...
    22 KB (2,612 words) - 04:40, 24 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Diagrid
    England Vladimir Shukhov Buckminster Fuller Frei Otto Norman Foster Gridshell Geodesic dome Hyperboloid structure Panrussian Exposition 1896 Tensile...
    5 KB (444 words) - 05:02, 25 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for MGM Cotai
    restaurants, named The Spectacle, features the world's largest free-span gridshell glazed roof that is self-supporting. A further 77 tables transferred from...
    8 KB (636 words) - 22:44, 15 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Chris J. K. Williams
    cardboard gridshell of the Japan Pavilion, Hanover Expo 2000, Germany (2000) form finding for the Weald and Downland Gridshell (2001) the gridshell of Savill...
    6 KB (429 words) - 22:29, 12 January 2023
  • Thumbnail for Tensile structure
    Tensegrity structures Prestressed membranes Pneumatically stressed membranes Gridshell Fabric structure Common materials for doubly curved fabric structures...
    21 KB (2,714 words) - 23:21, 23 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Shell (structure)
    stressed ribbon bridge or saddle roof Lattice shell structures, also called gridshell structures, often in the form of a geodesic dome or a hyperboloid structure...
    5 KB (494 words) - 18:56, 7 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for W Abu Dhabi – Yas Island
    construction starting in 2007. The feature façade, formed of a steel and glass gridshell, was designed by Asymptote Architecture New York and built by Waagner-Biro...
    4 KB (381 words) - 08:11, 24 June 2025
  • Architects Practice name Buro Happold Projects Sydney Opera House Timber Gridshell, Mannheim, Germany Millennium Dome, London The Globe Theatre, London The...
    4 KB (193 words) - 10:28, 8 October 2024
  • process), thin-shell structure, tensile structure, hyperboloid structure, gridshell, oil pipeline, cylindric oil depot Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor (born 1972)...
    107 KB (12,106 words) - 14:24, 27 June 2025