The concrete shell structure of the Norwich Sports Village designed by Swiss engineer Heinz Isler in Norfolk, UK, has been ...

The heart of the four metre tall curved concrete shell is knitted. The structure's formwork is a textile supported by a steel cable-net. The prototype KnitCandela marks the first application that this ...

Forget scarves and mittens. Soon, we might be able to knit entire buildings. A team from the Swiss university ETH Zurich has developed a technique that allows them to knit textiles that can then form ...

Norwich Sports Village, designed by Swiss engineer Heinz Isler and featuring a distinctive ‘inverted membrane’ concrete ...

California architecture studio Brooks + Scarpa has created a central structure for a sports complex in Florida with a sloped concrete shell designed to "make a spectacle of rainfall". The Field House ...

This news release is available in German. Large shell structures made of concrete or stone are hardly ever built any more. The reason is that their construction requires large, expensive supporting ...

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 ...

Researchers at MIT are seeking to redesign concrete—the most widely used human-made material in the world—by following nature's blueprints. In a paper published online in the journal Construction and ...