A paper by D. Veenendaal et al. 1 gives a detailed historical perspective of innovators who have proceeded us using fabric as part of their building forming systems, as hydraulic and geotechnical ...

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The winter season can bring on a series of challenges: snow, ice and severely low temperatures. These challenges are even more significant for concrete contractors who are often forced to shorten ...

Slices taken from a concrete column cast inside a flexible fabric mould form the centrepiece of this exhibition in Vancouver showcasing designer Omer Arbel's material experiments. An exhibition of ...

Romantic notions would have us imagine finished sculptural forms as trapped within raw, unhammered rock until the artist who divines their truth liberates them. Isamu Noguchi had a more nuanced ...

Designer Omer Arbel's Vancouver studio has made a film documenting the concrete forms of House 75.9, which is being built on a hay farm near Surrey in British Columbia, Canada. The video shows the ...