Post on 23-Feb-2020
Building: Padre Pio Pilgrimage ChurchLocation: San Giovanni Rotondo, ItalyCompleted: July 2004Architect: Renzo Piano Building WorkshopStructural: Favero & Milan IngegneriaConsulting engineers: Ove Arup & PartnersWood construction: Merk HolzbauAcoustics: Helmut Müller, Germany
In 1502 Leonardo da Vinci did a simple drawing of a graceful bridge with a single span of 720-foot span (approximately 240-meters.) Da Vinci designed the bridge as part of a civil engineering project for Sultan Bajazet II of Constantinople (Istanbul.)
On the Project, Vebjørn Sand successfully collaborated with a professional team of engineers and architects to test the build-ability of the design.
Improper construction methods are believed to be the reason of last
Saturday's building collapse in Shanghai, according to a report from
the investigation team. The investigation team's report said that
workers dug an underground garage on one side of the building
while on the other side earth was heaped up to 10 meters high,
which was apparently an error in construction, according to a report
on eastday.com, Shanghai's official news website. "Any construction
company with common sense would not make such a mistake," said
an expert from the investigation team.