When Bob Zielinski, a former marine who owns a glass manufacturing company here, and his wife, Kim, showed contractors plans for the house they wanted to build — a 53-foot-long glass-and-steel wedge cantilevered over their factory — the contractors said they couldn't do it. You’d...
Kraanspoor (translated as craneway) is a light-weight transparent office building of three floors built on top of a concrete craneway on the grounds of the former NDSM (Nederlandsche Dok en Scheepsbouw Maatschappij) shipyard, a relic of Amsterdam’s shipping industry. This industrial monument, built in 1952,...
Park planners and the public came together in West Oakland on November 14, 2013, for an open house that showcased the current Gateway Park design and launched the environmental review phase of the project. The open house was enthusiastically attended by nearly 100 local residents,...
Our friends from Le 2 Workshop sent us House on the Water, a self-sufficient house for nomadic life offshore. Designed as a rental house for people who want to be independent it’s available only through water. It is located by Navagio beach, NW coast of...
The stilted, four-building complex, designed by Scenic Architecture, appears to hover above the ground-level atrium in a grove of camphor trees, which poke through the interior walls and adjoin small bridges that interconnect the larger maze of light-filled spaces. Gizmodo full article Designed by Scenic Architecture...
One of our student design competitions Co-Winners holding the trophy we made from the old S curve steel. Ngan Ching Ying and Lee Ka Chun of The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture have joined the Bay Bridge House team as interns...
Original East Span Demolition By The Numbers Bay Brdige Info site ...
As soon as the old Bay Bridge was shut down, crews began dismantling it. Most of that work was on the Oakland touch down to make way for the temporary bicycle path. But taking down the entire structure is a Herculean engineering feat that has...
Here are some Great videos made by NorCal Structural using Tekla software for the Bay Bridge. These models are being used in the demolition and to test the stresses on different sections as beams are removed. Kind of like a giant visual Jenga game. Norcal...