Allianz Arena is a soccer stadium in Munich, Germany, which hosted the opening match of the 2006 FIFA World Cup. The stadium became a new landmark of the city. The translucent exterior facade of the stadium shines light in various colors and thus makes the whole arena building very special.
Every summer, movie nights and other events take place on the banks of the Elbe in Dresden. The more than 55 film events and numerous concerts with national and international artists are attended by more than 200,000 guests.
The Eden Project in Cornwall, United Kingdom is a complex of two huge biome buildings consisting of several domes and outdoor gardens. Inside the biomes, there are several thousand species of plants collected from many diverse climates and environments, which serve for biological studies and exhibitions. The Rainforest Biome was built in the second phase of The Eden Project’s development. It is kept at a tropical temperature and moisture level and covers over 1,000 varieties of tropical plants.
The Ferrari World Theme Park on Yas Island, UAE, is an amusement and recreation park including a Formula 1 racing circuit, shopping mall, several luxury hotels, and two golf courses.
The gigantic freeform roof of Ferrari World is the largest spatial framework ever built.
An impressive roof structure was constructed over the Passion Play open-air theater in Sömmersdorf, Franconia (Germany). The self-supporting spatial steel structure includes a PVC membrane roof covering the 14,908 ft² auditorium. Only four foundations in total support the entire roof structure.
The new roofing system for the GULFIN Cameroun oil company's filling station in Douala is a particular structure with eccentric columns and non-symmetric cantilevered 21-foot-long beams.
The Under Canvas company provides a unique opportunity for all-inclusive adventure glamping (glamorous camping). Established in 2009, the company has grown to include multiple luxury glamping resorts and customized events all over the country.
The Belin-Béliet (department of Gironde) municipality tennis club, founded in 1976, completed a new tennis hall in July 2019. This project was made possible due to a subsidy provided by the French Tennis Federation along with the support of the municipality.
A unique roof structure covering the bus station was built in the Swiss town of Aarau at the end of 2013. The canopy has a cloud-like shape and contains the largest single-chamber cushion in the world. It has a volume of 63,920 ft3 and a roofed area of 11,517 ft2.
In 2018, Alì Supermercati decided to extend its existing regional commercial network with a new shopping mall located in Via Noalese, Treviso, Italy. The project, designed by Studio Signorotto Architettura of Treviso, includes a glued-laminated timber roof, which integrates with the area’s existing wood structures, characterized by a perfect aesthetic design and quality building material.
With the Crossrail railroad line in Great Britain, one of the biggest infrastructure projects of Europe is in progress. The construction costs for the 73-mile railroad line amount to about €21 billion. It runs from Reading in Berkshire in the west to Shenfield in Essex in the east, crossing through the center of London.
A branch line runs under the Thames to Woolwich and ends at the recently completed Abbey Wood Station. Its extraordinary timber roof construction has the shape of a huge manta ray which seems to hover above the station.
Brock Commons is an 18‑story mass timber hybrid student residence currently under construction at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.
When completed in summer 2017, it will be the tallest mass timber hybrid building in the world, at 174 feet high.
An extraordinary new outdoor theatre opened in Bytom, Poland in August 2014. From a structural engineering point of view, the building consists of two parts (a theater stage and a backstage) geometrically interconnected by a spatial-shaped roof. This gives the structure its remarkable design.
Under Canvas began in 2009 with the opening of an all-inclusive glamping adventure package. It has since grown to include eight luxury glamping resorts and a customized event offering, bringing the glamping experience to life everywhere in the country.
A unique project called "Oxigeno" is currently under construction in San Francisco de Heredia, San José, Costa Rica. The recreational and commercial space, which measures almost 1,345,489 ft², offers the visitor a relaxing shopping atmosphere in harmony with nature. Among other things, 200 trees were planted on the site. The main food court is covered with a 17,222 ft² ETFE cushion as a roof, currently the biggest in the world.
The former Diamond Exchange in Amsterdam, now known as Capital C, has been restored to its former glory after a radical renovation. This national monument has not only been returned to its original shape, but also includes a new steel-and-glass roof.
A unique timber structure has been located in the heart of London since the end of March 2014. In a period of just six months, the Austrian company WIEHAG built the roof with a total length of 984.2 ft for the Crossrail railroad station situated in the Canary Wharf business district.
Suzhou is a well-known garden city in China, where nine of its classical gardens are listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The project and design of Suzhou Olympic Sports Centre are based on Chinese gardens in order to create a lively and publicly accessible sports park. The stadium roof is currently the largest single-layer cable network structure with membrane roofing in East Asia.
A family house with a remarkable roof structure was built in Upper Austria in 2014. The circle in the center of the building is spanned by a tented roof. It was built as a visible wooden structure, and together with the light‑flooded glass facade, it is a real eye‑catcher.
The arched hall includes a 72 ft x 177 ft rectangular floor plan, height of 33 ft and roof radius of 66 ft. The structure houses large offices with additional storage space available.
The year 2019 marked the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing. For this occasion, a road show was planned in several cities throughout the United States of America. For this road show, a large temporary theater tent housing 1,600 seats was designed.
The Somnium is an accessible roof garden located on the TNF tower (Faculty of Engineering Natural Sciences Tower - TNF) of the Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU).
With an area of 110,000 ft², the North Surrey Sports and Ice Complex includes three ice rinks, event rooms, and restaurants, as well as outdoor areas.
StructureCraft, a customer of Dlubal Software, was selected as the structural engineer and builder of the roof structure for this exciting local project in Surrey, Canada, after proposing a turnkey, value-engineered solution in late 2017.
At the beginning of December 2016, a giant wooden airship “suspended” above the Center for Contemporary Art in Prague, Czech Republic, opened to the public.
The unique timber and steel airship structure was named “Gulliver” and, just like the early zeppelins, it represents both the eternal human desire to fly, and a certain utopian ideal. Gulliver will serve as space for literary events related to the themes of DOX’s exhibitions. These exhibitions are characterized by critical reflection on the situation of our contemporary world.
A roof made of steel and fabric membranes was designed for the soccer stadium in San Bernardo, a city in the south of Santiago. The elegant, curved design in lightweight construction now also covers the standing area.
In May 2018, there was completed new production of the renowned Scottish whisky producer Macallan after three years of construction. The company building has a spectacular roof structure which fits perfectly into the surrounding landscape. The green roof spans over a length of more than 656 ft. It consists of five domes with tapered off canopy.
The architectural highlight of the Halle (Saale) bus station includes stylish canopies over the bus platforms. The continuous lights integrated at the roof edges are a real eye-catcher, especially at night.