Issues

Issue 7

February 2001

  • Issue 7

Crossing the rails at Brixton: replacing the UK's busiest rail junction
Large transparent geodesic domes of the Eden Project sit among green hills under a bright, partly cloudy sky.
  • Civil & structural
  • Issue 7

How an Eden was created in Cornwall

The Eden Project transformed a disused Cornish clay pit into one of the UK’s most ambitious Millennium developments. Combining innovative engineering with sustainable design and built within challenging terrain, the project required inventive structural solutions, lightweight cladding and complex ground modelling.