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Frame and Form (estructura y forma) was born with the modest desire to promote and disseminate structural design culture. The content of this blog is based on small articles where synthesized information is provided about accomplishments , events, history, contests and curiosities of marked structural works like bridges or buildings. These capsules of information intended [...]

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21 June, 2010

Pompidou Center in Metz

The recently opened Metz Pompidou Centre opened in May last culminating almost 7 years of development and construction of this ambitious project. Studies of Shigeru Ban and Jean de Gastine joined forces with Arup structural designers in order to make possible the joint vision [...]

17 May, 2010

Arups on Engineering III – Key Speech

This is the third and final post of the miniseries Arups on Engineering. Previously we talked about the concepts of Learning Society and Integrated Design present in the various tests that make up the book on Engineering Arups. In this post we focus on her famous “Key Speech” than Ove Arup conducted in 1970.

27 April, 2010

Arups on Engineering II – Integrated Design

In this second post of the miniseries on Arup Engineering (here the first ) discuss the concept of integrated design architecture also known as total.

19 April, 2010

Arups on Engineering I – Learning Society

Arups on Engineering was published to celebrate the 50 anniversary of the founding of Arup by Ove Arup In 1946. This book reveals the depths of the international firm of designers across 30 essays by some of its members. Several disciplines in the book in the line of “total design“, posts in this miniseries will focus on the texts related to the structural design.

Kingsgatebridge - Foto por Iqbal Aalam