July 1998

A New Destination Down Under
Amongst the tropical rainforest and sandy beaches of the City of Cairns, Australia, lies Cairns Central, a $144 million, 500,000-square-foot mixed-use development (140KB PDF)

Off The Beam

Steel Flower
The fluid and curving forms of the recently opened Guggenheim Museum have been immediately recognized as one of the most complex, unique and important architectural designs of this century. (996KB PDF)

The Future of Fire Engineering
The international trend toward performance-based building regulations and away from prescriptive codes for fire engineering is creating new opportunities for steel building design. (132KB PDF)