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AI’s Thoughts on The Future of Festival Tents
15 February 2024
Rudi Enos
Finally seeing if AI is going to replace us all…
Article : Festival Republic Invests In Huge New Open-Air Venue For Reading And Leeds Festivals
15 February 2024
Access All Areas (accessaa.co.uk)
This year’s 105,000-capacity Reading Festival and Leeds Festival (75,000) will feature new arena stage concept The Chevron, built to accommodate 40,000 people. Featuring a “floating LED video sky canopy” supplied by Colour Sound and a stage from Special Structures…
Article : ICE at Kensington Palace launched by Tamarisk Events’ Peter Phillips and Rob Derry
6 September 2023
standoutmagazine.co.uk
Tamarisk Events is working with Wanderlands, which is advising both Derry and Phillips on sustainability. Plus, Arena is providing services to the event as is Rudi Enos, who has designed a special roof solution – called the Sky Sail – which will cover the ice rink.
Article : Moveable Type - Ephemeral Architecture Responds To Our Flexible, Mobile Nature.
Spring 2016
Architecture Boston / usmodernist.org
In the spring of 2009, New York architects LOT-EK created a temporary shopping complex on Boston’s Fan Pier. Puma City, made from shipping containers, converted these humble industrial objects into architecture almost… Rudi Enos Page 32.
Book : Fabric Structures in Architecture
April 2015
J Llorens, Woodhead Publishing Series in Textiles
Fabric Structures in Architecture covers the varying ways textiles and their properties are used in building construction, with particular focus given to tensile structures. Rudi Enos Page 9 onwards.
Article : Structural Anchor System Facilitates Installation of Temporary Structures
23 March 2015
festivalinsights.com
ANCA has launched a new structural anchor which brings easily certifiable ground anchorage to temporary structures. System 2000, the first model, is available now and hopes to help marquee companies, event organisers, building contractors and inspecting authorities measure the…
Book : Architecture in Motion: The history and development of portable building
September 2013
Robert Kronenburg, Routledge
Architecture in Motion examines the development of portable, transportable, demountable and temporary architecture from prehistory to the present day. Rudi Enos Section 9 onwards.
Article : AIF’s Claire O’Neill discusses the importance of structural precautions for the festival season
12 March 2012
audiomediainternational.com
Association of Independent Festivals (AIF) general manager Claire O’Neill recently spoke to API sister publication Music Week to discuss the importance of basic structural precautions across this summer’s festival season…
Book : Live Architecture: Venues, Stages and Arenas for Popular Music
January 2012
Robert Kronenburg, Routledge
Live Architecture explores the physical form of popular music performance space from 1960 to the present day. “6. Mobile Spaces 6.1. Valhalla, Rudi Enos, 2000”.
Interview : Extreme weather warning for outdoor music festivals
21 November 2011
Independent
Rain-lashed fields are an annual hazard for the British festival-goer. But extreme weather events caused by climate change are making fatalities at festivals a serious threat, the UK concert industry has warned…
Article : Glastonbury, Paolo Nutini Among Winners At U.K. Festival Awards; Festival Republic CEO Melvin Benn Delivers Conference Keynote And Talks Exclusivity
16 November 2011
Billboard
Headline performances from Beyonce, U2 and Coldplay helped Glastonbury win the best major festival award at the eight annual U.K. Festival Awards, held in London last night (Nov. 15). Other winners…
Book : Portable Architecture: Design and Technology
May 2008
Robert Kronenburg, Birkhauser
This book discusses the forerunners, present context, and technology of portable architecture. Rudi Enos Page 96 onwards.
Article : LA SCÈNE : INFRASTRUCTURE & ÉCLAIRAGE
24 September 2006
radiohead.fr
Que ce soit dans une tente, dans un amphithéâtre, dans un arena, dans une petite salle ou en festival, Radiohead prend soin de la scène. Rien n’est improvisé, les meilleurs techniciens sont requis pour que le show soit total. Au fur et à mesure des années, les équipements se sont spécialisés, ont même été conçus et construits à la demande !
Conference Paper : Movement of the Worlds Largest Portable Membrane Structures
April 2004
Transportable Environments Conference, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
Abstract.
The event organizers use of structures in the event business has changed in the last 20 years from necessity to choice. Temporary environments have been used for some the largest events ever held. The largest music festivals in the world, the most significant fashion show in the world, the largest one night dance event in the world, the exhibition for the ‘Earth Summit’ in Johannesburg, the largest business conference held in a temporary structure (Bakersfield CA), the MTV Europe Awards and the first ever European tour of a number one rock band housed entirely in membrane structures (for Radiohead). The driving force for this acceptance of the temporary venue is twofold; first, the high level of engineering that allows the promoter to safely house and insure major events and two, the realization of large span temporary structures which allow the required capacity to ensure economic successes. This is the background to the development of the largest portable event venues the world has ever seen.
Review : Science and engineering al fresco
28 July 1990
NewScientist
Nowhere is the transformation of derelict land better seen than at the 1990 National Garden Festival. It has been engineered over a period of more than two years from 200 acres of unpromising land…