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Octatube | Realizing Challenging Architecture - Systems-solutions - All-glass
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Do you have innovative ideas, dreams or designs with heavy impossibilities? We are eager to solve your quest! Let us know so we can help you. Glass can have all the compressive strength of concrete, provided the forces are appropriately applied to the glass surface. It makes glass extremely interesting as a structural material, but it does call for an absolute mastery of the associated theory and practice. The glass dome of the Selimiye Mosque. The Victoria and Albert Daylit Gallery Roof. The Victoria an...
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Octatube | Realizing Challenging Architecture - Projects
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Van Gogh Museum, 2015. Kisho Kurokawa and Hans van Heeswijk. New glass entrance building with glass fins, cold bent glass and glass stairs. Kisho Kurokawa and Hans van Heeswijk. Market Hall, 2014. Europe's largest cablenet facades. Fletcher A2 Hotel, 2012. Benthem and Crouwel Architecten. Second skin GRP and glass facade. Benthem and Crouwel Architecten. Large glass fin roof covering historic courtyard. Netherlands, The Hague. Glass Cube, 2009. Victoria and Albert Museum Daylit Gallery, 2009.
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Octatube | Realizing Challenging Architecture - News - W Hotel (Kas Bank Building)
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Back to the overview. W Hotel (Kas Bank Building). The exclusive hotel chain W will open its second Dutch hotel at the end of this year, following the already operational W Hotel. Glass bridge in the atrium of the Kas Bank building. The design for the transformation of the Kas Bank building into a modern and luxurious hotel is drawn by Office Winhov. In collaboration with Hoek Architectuur and Restauratie en BK Architecture. Follow Octatube on Twitter. Follow Octatube on Linkedin.
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TRANSPORT | World Infrastructure News
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Does rejection of ‘Boris Island’ spell an ill wind for London? Controversy over the proposed location of a new runway serving London soared to new heights this week after the government’s Airports Commission rejected plans for a new hub airport in the Thames Estuary to the east of UK capital. How the thwarted Thames Estuary hub airport might have looked. Where the wind blows. In a column written for the UK’s Telegraph newspaper, Johnson rails against the fact that the way ahead now appears to be op...
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Portfolio – Mick Eekhout
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The works of Mick Eekhout comprises numerous books, articles, columns, lectures, projects and art is presented in this section. This site only presents a selection of this rich portfolio. Bouwtechnologie van de Toekomst. Lezing voor symposium KNAW. Columns voor de Cobouw krant. Componentontwerpen & Productontwikkeling. Booosting Glimpses Of The Future. Bundeling van toekomst visies. Prototyping Maison d’Artiste. Lord of the Wings: the Yitzhak Rabin Center. The making of free form architecture.