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  • SNKH creates pop-up cinema within "inverted Bedouin tent" in Moscow

    Armenian architectural studio SNKH has created a pop-up cinema informed by Bedouin tents outside the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow. More

    Tom Ravenscroft | 28 August 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Gad Line+ Studio perches white cloud-like pavilion to overlook sacred mountain in China

    White membrane stretches over the curved rooftop of Jiunvfeng Study, a mountainside visitor centre built by Gad Line+ Studio above Dongximen Village in Shangdong, China. More

    India Block | 8 May 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Tensile fabric roof stretches over bamboo structures at Raleigh Campsite in China

    The Architectural Design Institute of South China University of Technology has completed a youth development facility, by renovating a former primary school and adding a series of covered bamboo campsite spaces. More

    Jon Astbury | 6 April 2019 | Leave a comment
  • AA Design + Make students test the limits of timber in tensile woodland canopy

    A sculptural, tensile timber canopy has been constructed in Dorset woodland by five students from the Architectural Association as part of the school's Design + Make programme. More

    Lizzie Crook | 24 June 2017 | 4 comments
  • Drones can weave tensile architectural structures

    One-minute movie:  Swiss architecture firm Gramazio Kohler Architects and roboticist Raffaello D’Andrea have collaborated with ETH Zürich to investigate how drones can be programmed to "weave" simple tensile structures in the air.

    Read more about Flight Assembled Architecture ›

    Calum Lindsay | 3 March 2017 | Leave a comment
  • Dutch EU building features a facade combining tensile fabric and 3D-printed bioplastic

    DUS Architects has combined 3D-printed bioplastic with a tensile fabric structure to create a sculptural facade for the building where European Union meetings will take place over the next six months (+ slideshow). More

    Amy Frearson | 12 January 2016 | 3 comments
  • Frei Otto: a life in projects

    Dezeen remembers 2015 Pritzker laureate Frei Otto, who passed away this week at the age of 89, with some of the best projects from his pioneering career as a champion of tensile and membrane architecture and an early adopter of 3D modelling. More

    Anna Winston | 11 March 2015 | 6 comments
  • Drones can "weave structures in space in just a few minutes"

    Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: in the second part of our video interview with Ammar Mirjan, the architect explains how drones with cable dispensers attached can be used to quickly build lightweight architectural structures. More

    Benedict Hobson | 4 March 2015 | 7 comments
  • Barkow Leibinger chose "strong and elastic" cotton for tensile installation in Marrakech

    Dezeen promotion: cotton was the material of choice for design studio Barkow Leibinger when forming an undulating canopy in the centre of Marrakech (+ interview + slideshow). More

    Dan Howarth | 23 December 2014 | Leave a comment
  • Serpentine Sackler Gallery by Zaha Hadid photographed by Luke Hayes

    Here's a full set of photographs of Zaha Hadid's new extension to the Serpentine Gallery, which features a glazed restaurant with an undulating fabric roof (+ slideshow). More

    Amy Frearson | 27 September 2013 | Leave a comment
  • Serpentine Sackler Gallery by Zaha Hadid

    News: Zaha Hadid's extension to the Serpentine Gallery has opened today in London's Kensington Gardens (+ slideshow). More

    Amy Frearson | 25 September 2013 | 18 comments
  • Membrane by Benjamin Hubert for Classicon

    Product news: this armchair by London designer Benjamin Hubert weighs just three kilograms. More

    Rose Etherington | 7 May 2013 | 27 comments
  • Up at the O2 by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners and Bblur Architecture

    These shots by photographer Edmund Sumner show some of the first visitors able to scale the roof of the O2 Arena in London, thanks to a new fabric walkway designed by architects Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners and Bblur Architecture (+ slideshow). More

    Amy Frearson | 9 January 2013 | 5 comments

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Studio Other Spaces creates colourful conical glass pavilion for Californian winery

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