ABSTRACT
This survey of outstanding world designs over the past 25 years demonstrates the use of steel in many forms. It looks at steel supported structures, at steel panelled structures and at constructions which use steel as a predominantly flexible and lightweight material. It looks at the many and various ways of designing excellent buildings in steel: at the Australian architect Glenn Murcutt’s artists’ studio house in North Sydney which employs corrugated sheeting, to the prefabricated and elemental type of construction employed by Richard Horden for his own house in Poole, Dorset, a structure that uses a limited range of steel tensile supports.
