Rabu, 01 April 2009

Architecture in Outdoor Textiles

Sylvia Tait's Textile Art on Woven Glass Solar Screen Shades


As reported in Digital Graphics, BMG Imaging printed Sylvia Tait's is artwork digitally printed on woven glass solar screen fabric for an aquatic center.

HOK Sport reveals design for London's Olympic Stadium for 2012

As reported in Fabric Architecture magazine, HOK Sport, along with The Olympic Delivery Authority have unveiled the design for the stadium for London's 2012 Olympics. The design allows for two-thirds of the spectators to be covered by a cable supported roof wrapped by a fabric curtain.

Gandia Blasco Outdoor Tents and Lights

Gandia Blasco creates modern outdoor furnishings and lighting from fabric.

Triaxial Wovens - Kate Spade and Shigeru Ban

I was paging through Elle Decor, and saw this ad for a Kate Spade handbag which reminded me of the roof on the Pompidou-Metz's hat inspired exterior, designed by Shigeru Ban, as featured in this month's Lexus Magazine, and scheduled to open later this year.



Kieran Timberlake Associates' Building Wrap

The printed an laminated SmartWrap composite envelopes the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, courtesy of Kieran Timberlake Associates, as reported by Specialty Fabrics Review.

Classic Tents Customized Outdoor Structure

A tent created for an event with specialty fabrics and lighting by Classic Tents.

Water Cube, Beijing, China


The National Aquatic Center in Beijing, China, otherwise known as Water Cube is covered completely with ETFE, a plastic laminated membrane material.

Cloud9 Proposes Fabric-Covered Building

As reported in Specialty Fabrics Review Magazine, Cloud9 Systems has proposed a building at the site of 22@Barcelona that is covered with an indoor environment regulating high-tech fabric made of polymer and crystal.

Ferrari Textiles' Soltis Material Shades Izola Apartments

The Slovenian Housing Fund chose Ferrari Textiles' Soltis fabric for the exterior of their low-cost apartment project in Izola, as featured in Fabric Architecture.

Foster+Partners' Conical Fabric Structure

As reported in Fabric Architecture, Foster+Partners built this conical structure made from hand-printed fabric panels at the London Festival of Architecture.

Fabritec Structures' Shading System at the Chaparral Water Treatment Facility in Scottsdale, AZ

As reported in Specialty Fabrics Review, Fabritec Structures has installed an award-winning tensile shading system at the Chaparral Water Treatment Facility in Scottsdale, AZ.

Zenith Fabric-Covered Performance Center, Strasbourg, France


As reported in Fabric Architecture, architects Massimiliano and Doriana have created a performance center that is covered with a silicone-coated glass fabric by P-D Interglass Technologies.

Royal Air Force Museum's Fabric Wall, Shropshire, UK

As reported in Fabric Architecture, the Royal Air Force Museum in Shropshire, UK, designed by Feilden Clegg Bradley Architects, features a maintenance-free fabric wall that diffuses light, thereby lowering energy use.

T-Mobile Headquarters, Bonn, Germany

Designed by ag4 mediatecture, T-Mobile's headquarters in Bonn, Germany features a transparent wire wall in a textile mesh construction that displays images with LED lights.

Zendome's Geodesic Giants

As reported in Specialty Fabrics Review, Zendome offers fabric-covered Geodesic domes that provides temporary spaces up to 1960 square meters.

Hajime Masubuchi and Thom Faulders' Meshwork Facade

Creative open, porous, multilayered meshwork building facade for Airspace in Tokyo, Japan, by Hajime Masubuchi and Thom Faulders, as reported in Dwell.

Gensler Associates' Fabric Tension Structures at Palm Springs International Airport


Designed by Gensler Associates, cable-supported fabric tension structures, made from DuPont Teflon-coated fiberglass, greet travelers at Palm Springs International Airport.

Design Miami's Laser-cut Tent

As featured on Miami Art Zine, Design Miami's tent made from laser-cut vinyl.

Chess Park's Illuminated Fabric Structures

Fabric-covered, illuminated forms to symbolize chess pieces, provide diffused light after dark at Chess Park in Glendale, CA. Reported in Fabric Architecture. Photo by Tom Bonner.

Chanel's Fabric Mobile Art Pavilion

As featured in Fabric Architecture, this is the Chanel Mobile Art Pavilion, which is on a tour of 6 cities, housing an exhibition of 19 handbags by prominent artists. Made with a PVC coated polyester exterior, with Dazian Trapeze fabrics inside, this portable structure was desinged by Zaha Hadid Architects, Arup and Architen Landrell. Photo by John Edward Linden.

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