Cecil Balmond’s Weave Bridge at University of Pennsylvania. Image © Architect Magazine.
OMA & Cecil Balmond’s CCTV Headquarters in Beijing.
Arguably the best structural engineer of contemporary times (re: Maison a Bordeaux, CCTV, the Pompidou Center), Cecil Balmond, is opening his own office after 40 years with Arup (where he headed the coolest-sounding department ever: “Advanced Geometry Unit”). Read more from our Daily Brew, here.
[via the Architectural Record]