Kenneth Cobonpue, who has long worked in a nautical vernacular, weaving abaca onto pebble- and leaf-shaped steel frames, now produces seating and tables inspired by fishermen's nets.
The ceiling is lined with bamboo slats and supported on a series of enormous Y-shaped steel trusses running down the center which are painted in the colors of the spectrum.
While many artists would scoff at the idea of painting a big, box-shaped, steel ship, Peter Max is excited by the idea.
"People didn't know if it was a nuclear-bomb facility, " says William Butterly about the temporary arch-shaped, steel-and-fabric hoop barn he had to build in his Fairfield, Conn.
The Kulluk is a circular barge 266 feet in diameter with a funnel-shaped, reinforced steel hull that allows it to operate in ice.
Rather than using rubber hoses to connect the stationary and moving parts of the building, 3sixty's ingenious plumbing system employs horizontal ring-shaped pipes made of steel.
They crouch behind plywood jails, sit on oil drums painted to look like horses and fire away at steel targets shaped like cowboys, cactuses, buffaloes or playing cards.
The tear-shaped frame of the Treetent is constructed from steel, covered in canvas and anchored to a tree trunk.
And the design work is fascinating, as you watch sheets of silvered poster-board get cut and shaped into models of what will ultimately be crafted in steel, then watch Pollock meld the models with the real buildings.
Behind a high fence in Menlo Park, Calif. a gray, tuna-shaped robot glides on a monorail around 20 solar panel arrays attached to steel poles, like WALL-E on a Disneyland ride.
The latter will consist of three free-standing units a square glass pavilion (as a workroom for the sculptor's poet wife), a tall triangle of recycled steel (forming the sculptor's studio) and an arc-shaped monolith of untreated wood, whose patina will turn grey with age (for the couple's house).
It lives on in the Cross of Steel made from the World Trade Center beams, placed on a Pentagon-shaped platform that rests proudly outside the Shanksville Volunteer Fire Department. (Applause.) That Cross of Steel is an enduring symbol of the steel and the spine of this region, and the spine of this country.
Stronger steel usually requires tradeoffs on other properties, like ductility, a metal's ability to be shaped into forms like sheets and wires.
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