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Agricultural textiles adapt to climate change

April 1st, 2024

Beef cattle underneath a Shade Haven mobile shade structure. The company’s products are deployed in the field to keep cows, llamas, sheep and goats out of direct heat. Comfortable livestock just eat better, which is important to the health of a farm as well as its animals. Image: Shade Haven As climate change and its […]

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New materials take portable structures to another level

October 1st, 2016

For Harry Osborne, creative lead at “brand experience agency” SET Live, headquartered in London, the graphic applications and collection of temporary structures throughout the “Google on the Beach 2015” (GoB) event were an exercise in balance. “A balance between getting the most from Anthony Burril’s incredible artwork,” says Osborne, “but also satisfying the local council’s […]

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Enhancing the “legitimacy” of portable structures

September 16th, 2016

The concept of a portable structure seems contrary to normal expectations. A building, after all, should be grounded with a solid footing and not move! Nevertheless, Aaron Betsky, architecture critic, curator and the dean of the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, Scottsdale, Ariz., argued in a recent online opinion piece that temporary structures should […]

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