Buro Happold
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Buro Happold Limited is a British professional services firm that provides engineering consultancy, design, planning, project management, and consulting services for buildings, infrastructure, and the environment. It was founded in Bath, Somerset, in 1976 by Sir Edmund Happold when he took up a post at the University of Bath as Professor of Architecture and Engineering Design.
Millennium Dome
View of the Great Court, British Museum, London.
Ashford Designer Outlet in Kent, United Kingdom
Umbrella-like shading canopies inside the Masjid an-Nabawi (Mosque of the Prophet)
Tensile structure
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In structural engineering, a tensile structure is a construction of elements carrying only tension and no compression or bending. The term tensile should not be confused with tensegrity, which is a structural form with both tension and compression elements. Tensile structures are the most common type of thin-shell structures.
The world's first tensile steel shell by Vladimir Shukhov (during construction), Nizhny Novgorod, 1895
The Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Kings Domain, Melbourne
The Olympiastadion in Munich makes extensive use of tensile roofing structures.
Frei Otto tensile structures for the Munich 72 Olympic Games, Germany.