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Miguel Fisac's Pagoda: A 16-Metre Square, Rotated, and the Straight Lines That Made Concrete Curve
How Miguel Fisac rotated a 16 m square into hyperbolic paraboloids, why his Madrid Pagoda still teaches, and a Grasshopper snippet to rebuild one face.
The Building That Packs Itself: Emilio Pérez Piñero’s «Teatro Ambulante» of 1961
In 1961 student Emilio Pérez Piñero won the UIA prize in London with a travelling theatre whose dome folds into a bundle of bars. See how the node works.
Torres Blancas: the concrete body that refused to be demolished
Sáenz de Oíza's 46-pillar monocoque tower in Madrid — 23,243 m² of concrete that couldn't be demolished. What its isotropic slabs teach a 2026 carbon desk.
The School That Knows Its Own End Date — Kantonsschule Stadelhofen's Dübendorf Modules
Kantonsschule Stadelhofen's Dübendorf branch — ~250 timber modules, Minergie-Eco, built in 15 months and detailed to come apart at the end of the 2030s.
The building that became the exhibit: reading the Lucas Museum from inside its curved skin
The 28,000 m² Lucas Museum opens 22 Sept 2026 — a free-form MAD shell where Star Wars art, NURBS geometry and the building-OS share one coordinate system.
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 Kept Its Promise: ETH's Rippmann Floor System Goes Tower-Scale in Zug
CreaTower I: VAULTED AG's Rippmann Floor System reaches tower scale in Zug, a ribbed vault with about 47% less concrete CO₂ than a flat slab, fourteen years in the making.
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.
