The design for an oil production platform, to be built in Burntisland, Fife, is featured in this issue of The Arup Journal, along with a doubly curved timber lattice shell roof for Mannheim garden exhibition in Germany.

The design for an oil production platform, to be built in Burntisland, Fife, is featured in this issue of The Arup Journal, along with a doubly curved timber lattice shell roof for Mannheim garden exhibition in Germany.
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Our first article focuses on the Burntisland Project - the development of a design for an oil production platform in Fife, Scotland.
This article looks closely at Arup’s initial feasibility study, moving on to the design of the platform.
Other articles in the issue include: Bundesgartenschau, Mannheim – a doubly curved timber lattice shell roof for Mannheim garden exhibition in Germany; The National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, UK; The Metal Box Company head office in Reading, UK.