Modern Teahouse Museum für Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt/Main (D) 2007 The Teahouse was a present for the city of Frankfurt/M. by Japanese companies. It is placed in the entrance hall or on a little hill in the garden of the museum. When it is not used, it is waiting packed on a dolly. The Teahouse got…
Tubaloon Jazz Festival Kongsberg (N) 2006 Since 1965 at the beginning of July Kongsberg which is situated 80km western of Oslo hosts one of Norway’s most important Jazz festivals. The stage covering Tubaloon is designed for several assemblies and dismantling. Data formTL consulting, form finding, workshop drawings membrane architect Snøhetta arkitektkontor, Joshua Tea/Oslo membrane manufacturer…
Meilenwerk Meilenwerk Düsseldorf (D) 2006 Metamorphosis of a listed ring shaped building for locomotive into a garage for vintage cars. Since 16. September 2006 more than 100 vintage cars are parked on 19.000 m². Here they are restored and maintained, can be visited and bought. Private owners of vintage cars have the possibility to rent…
Membran roof Campus Luigi Einaudi Turin (I) Above the University of Turin‘s Luigi Einaudi Campus the membrane roof connects the individual buildings and protects the building equipment and appliances from weather conditions. The substructure of the membrane roof is a complex three-dimensional steel structure The extraordinary form of the roof and the resultant different arches…
Zénith de Strasbourg (F) 2007 The Zénith is a ‚Salle de Spectacle’ situated in the greater Strasbourg area in Eckboldsheim and offers 10.000 seats. Around the massive oval centre swing five steel rings which are staggered to each other and are inclined differently. They are covered with an orange membrane. Award „Medaglia d’Oro all’Architettura Italiana“…
Redesign of the national stadium velodrome Abuja (Nigeria) 2006 The large shelter of sun and rain in shape of a tortoise shell covers the velodrome and the circumferential stands. The structure consists of a cable reinforced pretensioned membrane, which is anchored at the low edges with 16 suspended columns and at the high points with…
Bus station roofs Hamburg Barmbek (D) 2011/2012 winner of the competition in 2004 ap plan/ formTL With 60.000 passengers per day, Hamburg- Barmbek is the third largest railway station of Hamburg. It is located on properties of the „Deutsche Bahn AG“ and the „Hamburger Hochbahn AG“. At first in 1906 the city railway was built.…
La Nuvola at the EUR Convention Centre Rome Roma (I) 2016 In 2016 a new convention centre and hotel was opened in the EUR quarter of Rome. The convention centre’s 200m long and 75m high steel and glass cube is set partially below groundlevel. Fuksas sets the scene: attached to the ground or the cube…
Air control tower Wien (A) 2005 The air control tower with integrated office building of Austro Control,located to the west of the World Trade Centre, is the technical heart of the Vienna air control. With its 109m height the tower is the landmark of the airport. The cover is suitable for radar. It consists of…
Zentralstadion Leipzig (D) 1998 – 2003 Engineering 1998-2001 Construction 2001-2003 In Leipzig a soccer stadium was built for the FIFA WorldCup 2006, which fits perfectly in the embankment of the old athletic stadium. Instead of the 100,000 spectators in former times, today the new stands take 45,000 spectators. The stadium was planned with an operable…
