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Fishing Structures

Trabucco or yúwāng

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BISF Post War Houses

BISF (British Iron and Steel Federation) Post War prefabricated Steel Frame Housing Units, United Kingdom, from 1946

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Emilio Pérez Piñero Mobile Structures

Different Structures from Pioneer of Retractable Architecture: Emilio Pérez Piñero,

8. Pabellón Transportable, "Twenty five years of peace", Emilio Pérez Piñero, Nuevos Ministerios de Madrid, 1964

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Gunma Insect Observation Hall

Gunma Insect Observation Hall

Architect: Tadao Ando Structure: Kanabako Structural Engineers System: Grid Shell Steel Construction Main Span: 81m Greenhouse Floor Area: 1100m2 Year: 2004-2006 Location: Kiryu, Japan

Fotos © Shinkenchiku 2006 Issue 104P

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The Doomed Balloonfest

Balloonfest

1986, Cleveland, Ohio

via News 5 Cleveland

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5,600 Cubic meter Package

5,600 Cubic meter Package

Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Documenta IV, Kassel, 1967-68

Photos: Klaus Baum

© 1968 Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation

via https://christojeanneclaude.net/artworks/5600-cubicmeter-package/

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The First Ferris Wheel

Ferris Wheel

Original Ferris Wheel, George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. for the World's Columbian Exhibition, 1893, Chicago, Illinois, USA

via wikipedia

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Yoyogi National Stadium

Yoyogi National Stadium

Kenzo Tange, 1964, Toyko.

2. via https://www.shimz.co.jp/en/topics/construction/item01/content01/

9. via https://www.japanhouselondon.uk/whats-on/construction-record-of-the-1964-yoyogi-gymnasium/

The Rest of the Photographs © via archipositions

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Eduardo Torroja Miret Shell Structures

Eduardo Torroja Miret Shell Structures 1+2 Cuatro Vientos Hangar, 1949, Madrid. Span: 35m

3+4 Camp De Les Corts, 1943, Barcelona. Span: 27m

via blogspot 5 Alloz Aqueduct, 1939, Alloz. Length: 40m

© Yoshito Isono, https://structurae.net/en/media/53806-alloz-aqueduct

6 Frontón Recoletos, 1935, Madrid. Area: 55m x 32m 7+8+9 Hipódromo de la Zarzuela, 1935, Madrid. Span: 12,8m

All the other Photographs © via researchgate

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Ice Sculptures

Ice Sculptures

Ice Shells, Heinz Isler, 1926-2009

Photographs:© Heinz Isler Archive

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Airship Construction

Airship Construction

Construction of the USS Akron, Ohio, 1929-31

Photographs: http://drc.uakron.edu/

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Shukhov Gridshells

Shukhov Gridshells

The first Gridshell Structures and the famous Shukhov Tower, Vladimir Grigor'evič Šuchov, 1891-1922

Credit:

via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bsjFbkllnA&ab_channel=SergeiArsenyev

3. via Flickr

4. via Facebook

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Dymaxion House

Dymaxion House

Wichita House, Buckminster Fuller, 1948, Andover, Kansas Built by Graham as a Hybrid of two Designs by Buckminster Fuller (1945), Weight: around 1,3 Tons. Normal House 150 Tons.

via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh5IIkH4xkA&ab_channel=RobertDuchesnay

3. + 4. "Robert Duchesnay: The Dymaxion Dwelling Machine"

5. the Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

6. image via www.thehenryford.org/explore/blog/learning-about-the-house-of-the-future

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Aviary Munich

Aviary of the Munich Zoo

Jörg Gribl and Frei Otto, Hellabrunn, Germany, 1980

© Foto Sources

2. Wiesner, H., 1997.

4. via https://www.db-bauzeitung.de/architektur/kulturbauten/voliere-im-tierpark-hellabrunn-in-muenchen/

5. via Münchner Tierpark Hellabrunn

6. Hyatt Foundation / Atelier Frei Otto Warmbronn