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A Roof Found, Not Drawn: What Munich's 1972 Tent Still Teaches My Generation
The Olympiastadion's cable roof was form-found, not designed — what equilibrium structures and TNA teach heritage smart buildings about listening to their own loads.
The Floor That Remembers Isler: ETH's Funicular Deck Goes Tower-Scale in Zug
CreaTower I in Zug is the first tower-scale build of ETH's RFS funicular floor — a ribbed vault from Philippe Block's group cutting concrete CO₂ by ~47%.
The Plug Was Designed. The Swap Was Never Funded.
Kurokawa's Nakagin Tower designed a 25-year capsule swap that never happened. Why designed-for-disassembly is a data problem before it is a detail problem.
A Calatrava Block Learns to Feel Its Own Springs: Kreuzbühlstrasse 1, Zürich
Calatrava's LEED-Gold Haus zum Falken at Stadelhofen isolates the tram on a mass-spring. The one ratio behind it — and why a building must read its own sensors.
A basil leaf on a steak: what Rotterdam Rocks! asks a building to swallow
Barnabas Calder's Dezeen critique of MVRDV's €240m Shift Embassy, read from the building's side — why a leafy facade is accounting, not decarbonisation.
Terafab: What It Would Feel Like to Be the Largest Building Ever Poured
Musk's 100M-sq-ft, $16.8B Terafab reads as the world's largest building — but at 1 TW of compute the heat load, not floor area, decides if it's even physical.
Remise Rosa: a CLT body that rose on a Zurich freight yard in five months
Hello Wood's 2,500 m² Remise Rosa stood up on a Zurich freight yard in five months via CNC-prefabricated CLT — and why the real win is the model, not the speed.
The Singing Roof: What Sou Fujimoto's House of Music Feels When Freddie Moves In
Sou Fujimoto's House of Hungarian Music hosts a Freddie Mercury tribute — and shows why every hall is tuned to one number: reverberation time. A PAZ acoustics read.
Tor Alva: The White Tower That Grew Its Own Skeleton in Concrete
ETH Zurich's Tor Alva stands on 32 printed concrete columns in Mulegns. The real win is reinforced thin-walled printing — here's the lesson for your desk.
Before a building can feel itself, someone must learn to build the system
PAZ opens Building System Specialist Title XIV on 1 Sept 2026 — five months, six hours a week, teaching Grasshopper-and-Archicad system-building over manual drawing.
