At first steel mullions were supposed to sustain the facade but, mainly due to a loss of visibility, the need to make all more transparent brought us to this last solution where glazing columns make all lighter. This façade is the main “shopfront” from where luxury yachts displayed inside the building are visible from outside. […]
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The legendary Fontainbleau hotel on Miami beach is worldwide well recognized due to having been a set for the film “007”. Aside of the legendary hotel, the property has built a new residential tower. The tunnel that joins the old building to the tower also contains the valet and is made of stainless steel frames and […]
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The original design for the façade was a standard mullions & transoms frame with glazing filled in. By discussing with the Architect, he asked for a more transparent solution; my proposal was to make a façade like a “tent” suspended to the roof and stiffened by ropes like those used for rigging of racing boats. […]
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I met Massimo when he drawn his idea on a simple white sheet with colored pens. He said that his client (CMC in Miami) suggested to facetted the glazing and to use vertical and inclined mullions. When I told him his idea could be realized with curved and tapered glazing his eyes shone. I still […]
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In 2002 prof. Portoghesi asked me to give him consultancy about how to cover an elliptical hole in the roof of a Mall inside le Meridien Hotel in Rimini. We suggested a tensile structure like a “cuttlefish bone” entirely made of pre-stressed ropes and surmounted by insulated glasses. This was our first “tensegrity” project. All […]