shotcrete (3)

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  At Montreal’s Insectarium, Visitors Are Immersed Into the World of Bugs

  … mound and envelops the viewer in a shotcrete interior that feels like an underground labyrinth. Visible from the exterior, the dome emerges from the surrounding botanical garden landscape and, a few years from now, will be covered in plant life. After winning an international competition in 2014, Berlin-based architects Kuehn Malvezzi and Montreal …

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  The Richard Gilder Center Opens at the American Museum of Natural History

  … last space, Jeanne Gang tells me, “Goes all the way down to the bedrock.” It stands in contrast to the building’s four-story atrium, whose showy shotcrete curves provide all the structure the space needs to hold itself up, obviating the need for columns. Thin acoustic fins splay out from where the column meets …

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  Researchers in Germany Construct the World’s First Carbon Concrete Building

  … two volumes, the “Box” and the “Twist”, the latter consists of a load-bearing shell, an insulating layer, and a weather shell and was manufactured onsite with shotcrete and formwork. The Box, on the other hand was prefabricated, demonstrating the material’s range of applications. “The big advantage is that you no longer need concrete …