Title & Author:

Tension Structures / [presented by] Ian Liddell (Buro Happold).

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1998.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (36 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Riyadh Conference Centre: Plan & Section -- Mannheim Multihalle, 1974: Structural Model -- Mannheim Multihalle, 1974: Wire Mesh Model -- Mannheim Multihalle, 1974: Load Test -- Mannheim Multihalle, 1974: Watching Load Test -- Mannheim Multihalle, 1974: The Finished Building -- Mannheim Multihalle, 1974: Ove Arup & Frei Otto On Site -- Tent At Dyce; BP Forties Field. 1975: The Tent -- Tent At Dyce; BP Forties Field. 1975: Interior -- Tent At Battersea Park, London: Model -- Tent At Battersea Park, London: The Reality -- Globe Theatre, London: Interior -- Imagination Building, London: The Parallel Blocks From Above -- Imagination Building, London: Interior Bridges -- Imagination Building, London: View From Above -- 58 Degree North, Covered City Project: Model -- Westminster & Chelsea Hospital: Atrium Roof -- Temporary Tent For R.S.S.B: Exterior -- Temporary Tent For R.S.S.B: Tent Being Erected -- Millennium Dome: Mike Davies' Original Sketch -- Millennium Dome: Proposed Structure. Drawing -- Millennium Dome: Final Development Design -- Millennium Dome: Completion -- Millennium Dome: Roof Details.

Summary:

The Scottish engineer Ian Liddell trained at St. John's College, Cambridge and Imperial College, London. In between he was for 3 years at Ove Arup & Partners, where he was one of the group working on the design of the Sydney Opera House. He then spent 5 years doing industrial concrete structures for contractors Holst & Co. before returning to Arup's in 1968. In 1976 he and Ted Happold left to set up Buro Happold in Bath. Liddell is one of the world's leading experts in the field of lightweight tension and fabric structures, and he describes some of these, culminating in the giant Millennium Dome on the Greenwich peninsula, an 'umbrella' to shelter the exhibition which opened on January 1 2000. The architect is Mike Davies of Richard Rogers & Partners.

Subject:

Structural engineering.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Technique de la construction.
Architecture 20e siècle.
structural engineering.
Architecture, Modern.

Added entries:

Liddell, Ian, narrator.