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Article: Building on a diet. (FTL/Happold's exhibition of flexible structures)(Copper-Hewitt Museum, New York, New York)
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- Interior Design
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- September 1, 1997
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Foregoing brick and mortar for fabric and cable stays, FTL, now celebrating its 20th anniversary, has designed lightweight shelter for athletes and rockers, runway models and sea birds.
It all started with a small group of inquisitive, not to mention entrepreneurial, students enrolled in the architecture program at Cornell University. The time was the 1970s. The object of their inquiries: tensile structures. The result: a professional portfolio of more than 1,000 projects, from the temporary - the National Symphony Orchestra Acoustical Shell in Washington, the Atlanta Olympics venues, and the biannual fashion show tents in New York - to the permanent - DKNYs New York ...
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