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Tensile Fabric Structure Installation

Going Up! New Installation Video

Written by Amy Richardson in Challenging Installations

Ever wondered how we install big fabric canopies? Check out this cool 80 second mini film as we bring shade to Rowley Mile Racecourse.

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Macmillan World’s Biggest Coffee Morning

Baking & Eating for a Good Cause!

Written by Amy Richardson in Charity

Architen Landrell staff have been baking their hearts out this week getting ready for Macmillan’s ‘World’s Biggest Coffee Morning’.

Today is the day and now we are enjoying delicious cookies, cakes and muffins, while raising money for a great cause.

The World’s Biggest Coffee Morning is Macmillan’s largest fundraising event of the year.

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ETFE roof of the Munhak swimming venue built for the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon

17th Asian Games: Opening Ceremony 19 September

Written by Amy Richardson in ETFE, Sport

In a week, the Opening Ceremonies for the 17th Asian Games will take place in Incheon, Korea.

Architen is proud to have designed, engineered, manufactured and installed the three layer ETFE inflated roof over the beautiful new Munhak Aquatics Venue. In total, 49 cushions make up the complex roof offering 3,000m2 of coverage.

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Fabric Structure being installed

Bringing Shade to Newmarket Racecourse

Written by Amy Richardson in Sport

There is a lot of activity this week and next at Newmarket Racecourse in Suffolk.  Architen is on site installing the steel framework for a bespoke series of interconnected Conic fabric structures.

Next week two cranes arrive on site to lift the enormous fabric canopy into place so that we can start the tensioning process.

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Tensile fabric roof replacement

Update on New Fabric Roof System

Written by Amy Richardson in Insulated Structures, Tensile Fabric Architecture News

As leaders in the field of Tensile Fabric Architecture, we live and breathe fabric structures so it would only seem right to work in an office with our own tensile fabric roof.

The structures which now house our factory were originally built as a number of touring training facilities for Natwest Bank and had an anticipated lifespan of just a few months.

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