ABSTRACT
This paper deals with two applications of the technology of tubular structures, as it has been developed over the recent decades for applications in architecture thanks to the fundamental work of civil engineering scientists. Recent architecture is greatly influenced by 3D modelling computer programs which leads to 3D liquid design architecture. In structural engineering terms the design of structures will be governed by liquid design whims of architects, that do not conform to any of the efficient schemes developed in recent years, like space frames, shell structures, tensile or compression structures. Rather the form is not structurally logical. The form is simply given and has to be realized. This realization will require a mix of many primary structural systems. The two examples will illustrate this combined approach: the steel structure for the central body of the Great Hall of the Rabin Center in Tel Aviv (Israel) and the Glass House of Malmö (Sweden).
