Hothouse botanical garden Århus (DK) 2011-2013 The new tropical hothouse in the botanical garden of the University of Århus supplements the existing glasshouse from 1969 by C. F. Møller. An elliptic dome structure with UV transmissible ETFE-cushions forms the cover, enabling tropical plants to grow in a controlled environment. In longitudinal and transverse axis the…
Titan Plaza Bogotá (Colombia) 2012 Since July 2012 there is a new shopping mall in the Calle 80 in Bogotá. 2008 we met Gerardo Castro Rojas on the Tensoestructuras Symposium in Santiago for the first time. From January 2011 until May 2012 we designed an ensemble consisting of 5 membrane/ foil roofs together. The subject…
Akwa Ibom Stadium Uyo (Nigeria) 2011-2014 For national and international big events a new multifunctional stadium in Uyo is built with 30.000 seats distributed on 2 stands. Uyo has 400.000 inhabitants and is the capital of the Akwa Ibom State in the South of Nigeria. The stadium has many particularities: it consists of two separate…
Refurbishment of the open-air theatre’s covering Tecklenburg (D) 2016 In 1992 IPL developed a retractable roof for the open-air theatre in Tecklenburg. Once in place the roof protects the spectators during the annual summer festival. The structure consists of six filigree cable girders from which five longitudinal rails are suspended. Six steel arches with a…
Palais Thermal Bad Wildbad (D) 2011 Since 165 years the old Graf-Eberhard-Bad in Bad Wildbad in the northern part of the Black Forest is the said to be one of the most beautiful spas in Europe. In the course of an extension of the Palais Thermal the sauna and the new outdoor pool have been…
Sports Canopy The National Tennis Centre London (GB) 2010 The headquarters of the British LTA in London were opened in 2007. Soon the capacity of the appending tennis courts was no sufficient for the rising training needs. To have training space even with rain and snow two of the tennis courts have been covered. A…
Olympic Stadion Kiew (UA) 2011 Since 2008 the reconstruction of the Olympic stadium in Kiev for the UEFA European Football Championship is proceeding. It will get a spoked wheel-roof with 560 cone tops The renewed stadium offers 69.000 seats. Hence it is the biggest and most important venue of the EM in the hosting countries…
New grandstand for “The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo” Edinburgh (GB) 2011 With more than 200.000 visitors per year „The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo“ is the major music-festival in Scotland. Since 1950 the festival takes place in August in front of the Edinburgh Castle. For the festival a new U-shaped grandstand with 8.800 seats and the…
Stand of Mercedes-Benz IAA Frankfurt/M. (D) 2009 The appearance of Mercedes-Benz, smart, AMG and Maybach was concentrated on the inside of Frankfurt’s festival hall, which had its 100. anniversary this year. With its once visionary steel structure it was Europe’s biggest self-supporting hall. A huge membrane of mesh fabric is spanned over the exhibition room…
Busterminal Aarau (CH) 2012/2013 A steel table and a large cushion wrapped by an arbitrary net of steel cables do not only form a bus terminal but a functional art piece in the urban space. A borderless pattern of bubbles has been printed on the blue upper and the transparent lower ETFE-foil. The world’s largest…
