Big Blue, UK

Case Study Big Blue is a Ron Arad designed architectural sculpture which is installed in canary Wharf. The sculpture is a 13.5m diameter truncated ellipsoid, which sits over a skylight to an underground shopping mall, and is supported on an eight metre diameter glass...

Millenium Dome Home Planet, UK

Case Study The home planet was a 33m diameter, 9m high, monocoque structure with no internal support and a large cut-out for people to enter and engineered by Gurit. Gurit engineered a solution which combined a sandwich laminate over the upper part of the structure,...

Schiphol Airport Cone, Netherlands

Case Study To make a bold statement above the Cone Bar and Deli in Schiphol Airport, interior designers Virgile and Stone had a vision for a translucent elliptical cone whose silhouette would emulate the tails of aircraft, while funnelling light into the retail area...

Wind Wand, UK

Case Study Most of the structures Gurit are asked to engineer involve the usual requirements for stiffer, stronger, lighter and lower cost structures, so it was interesting to be challenged by Ron Arad to produce instead a very flexible structure. His idea was to...

Rhyl Harbour Bridge, Rhyl, Wales, UK

Case Study The new lifting bridge over Rhyl Harbour in North Wales, serves as an additional crossing for pedestrians and cyclists. Spanning the River Clwyd from Rhyl’s West Parade to a newly created public area on the Kinmel Bay side of the river, the elegantly...