The grid-shell structure project, however, a multi-university international grant about researching best practices in architecture, was one of the more difficult projects for the students.

With the Wicker Pavilion, Didzis Jaunzems Architecture has combined contemporary architecture with traditional Latvian craftsmanship. The arched pavilion was built with a timber grid shell ...

In August 2023, architects Kristof Crolla and Garvin Goepel from the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Architecture, collaborated with Bamboo U to create an innovative bamboo grid shell structure.

Explore one of China’s most breathtaking architectural landmarks — a modern opera house featuring the world’s largest shell ...

The assembly is bolted together into a grid shell with more than 1,000 galvanized nuts and bolts and 2,600 washers. The footings are water jet cut from ½-inch steel plate, welded, and attached to ...

ATG’s new structure has already established itself as an ideal material for space applications, thanks to its impressive performance whilst ensuring that the component possesses the required material ...

Constructed entirely from paper, the grid shell pavilion is made up of recyclable paper tubes without joints. The airy tunnel arch measures 73.8 meters long and 25 meters wide.

Better understanding the structure and properties of beetle exoskeletons could help scientists engineer lighter, stronger materials. Such materials could, for example, reduce gas-guzzling drag in ...

Tonkin and Liu, founders of London-based architecture studio Tonkin Liu, adapted the design of their single surface structural technology – called the shell lace structure – to create the stent.

However, the role of timber-led innovation remains firmly rooted in the hall’s shell-like hexagonal globe structure, and undulating beehive-like ceiling (photographed below).

Here we report the discovery of a mineralized hierarchical photonic architecture embedded within the translucent shell of the blue-rayed limpet Patella pellucida.