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Building: Residential Home
Location: Holland, Netherlands
Architects: Powerhouse Co., Copenhagen/Rotterdam
Assistants: Nanne de Ru, Charles Bessard, Alexander Sverdlov, Nolly Vos, Wouter Hermanns, Anne Luetkenhues, Bjorn Andreassen, Joe Matthiessen
Structural Engineer: Breed ID Gilbert van der Lee, Den Haag

AE Interest: The structure of the house is rather unique. The main support lies in the exterior concrete structure, with one steel column supporting the roof over the center of the house, a bookshelf that doubles as a Vierendeel girder.

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Structure: Temporary structure built for the tour
Location: All over the world (Genesis Tour Dates)
Completion: 2007
Architect: Mark Fisher

AE Interest: Integrating a massive screen with a choreographed light show in the background of the stage is an impressive architectural design.

Structure: Temporary dome built for the show
Location: Greenwich, CT
Completion: 2000
Architect: Mark Fisher

AE Interest: The ability to create such a large temporary structure that seats so many people and allows them all to have a decent view of the center stage is a highly respectable task.

Structure: Designed for a show at the amusement park
Location: Japan
Completion: 2008
Architect: Mark Fisher

AE Interest: These structures have oblique and interesting shapes that also have moveable parts

Structure: Theater built for the show
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Architect: Mark Fisher
Completion: 2004

AE Interest: Fisher’s unique structural design of the stage really compliments the mesmerizing performance of Cirque Du Soleil very well.

Structure: Temporary stage built for the tour
Location: All over the world (U2 tour dates)
Completion: 2009
Architect: Mark Fisher
Video Screen kinetic design- Chuck Hoberman
Structural and membrane engineering – Neil Thomas, Atelier One
Video screen structural engineering – Buro Happold
Membrane form finding – Gavin Sayers, David Dexter
Membrane fabrication – Architen Landrell Associates
Polyp mushroom- Steel Monkey Engineering
Primary steelwork fabrication – StageCo

AE Interest:  Massive portable architecture that is used to entertain thousands at a time