Case Study The LightWands are an architectural sculpture consisting of 3 flexible masts 33, 28 and 23m tall which form an entrance feature for the New Bullring Development in Birmingham. Ten 1.5m long stainless steel leaves are mounted on individual bearings at 1m...
Case Study Following construction of the Paradise Street car park in Liverpool, a privacy screen was required as the car park overlooks the neighbouring police station. A translucent screen was preferred to enable daylight to illuminate the interior of the car park. ...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
