![]() ![]() Local structural engineering firm Timber Design created a freestanding steel structure that also ties into a building to resist wind loads. “hen I feel that someone else’s idea is great, I gladly join.” Válka drew a long blimp form spanning from one building to the other, and angled slightly, as if about to land. Gulliver is the brainchild of DOX Centre founder and director Leoš Válka, who, in 2013, asked Martin Rajniš, cofounder of local firm Huť Architektury Martin Rajniš (HAMR), to help him create “an absurdly fascinating organic shape” to contrast the center’s architecture. But the 130-foot-long, 30-foot-diameter structure known as Gulliver is in fact not an airship, but an event space and pedestrian bridge that incorporates stadium seating and a stage for literary events and lectures. Architect - April 2018 Detail: The DOX Centre’s Gulliver ShellĪ wooden zeppelin looms over the stark white roofs of the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, in Prague, cantilevering more than 50 feet beyond one of the cultural center’s warehouselike buildings. ![]()
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