| Arup today | 7 |
|---|
| Preface | 7 |
| Arup today – an interview with four Arup leaders | 8 |
| The power and the glory – strength and elegance in structure | 15 |
|---|
| CCTV headquarters in Beijing | 16 |
| Metropol Parasol in Seville | 22 |
| Serpentine Gallery Pavilions in London | 28 |
| AAMI Park in Melbourne | 36 |
| Total architecture – complexity and specialist expertise | 41 |
|---|
| King’s Cross station in London | 42 |
| London Aquatics Centre | 50 |
| Chinese National Aquatics Centre in Beijing | 54 |
| Terminal 5, Heathrow Airport in London | 58 |
| Paradise Regained – sustainable and environmental engineering | 63 |
|---|
| The California Academy of Science in San Francisco | 64 |
| Kroon Hall, Yale University in New Haven | 68 |
| Ropemaker Place in London | 72 |
| The Bavarian Parliament in Munich | 76 |
| Shaping the world – global reach and influence | 81 |
|---|
| Kindergarten in Dwabor | 82 |
| Canton Tower in Guangzhou | 90 |
| Danish Pavilion in Shanghai | 96 |
| Marina Bay Sands in Singapore | 104 |
| Pioneering passion – from personal inspiration to Arup culture | 111 |
|---|
| The art of Building Information Modelling | 112 |
| Acoustics and the Arup SoundLab – listening to architecture | 116 |
| Lighting design optimisation | 118 |
| The bio-responsive facade | 120 |
| Sustainable future – responsible designers | 122 |
| Sustainable future – sustainability goes mainstream | 124 |
| Working with Herzog | 124 |
| 126 | 124 |
|---|
| Ventures in product commercialisation | 128 |
| A passion for timber – developing the Life Cycle Tower | 130 |
| Geometric architecture | 134 |
| Projects and people | 137 |
|---|
| Catalogue of selected recent projects | 138 |
| Information on Arup | 154 |
| Authors | 154 |
| Picture credits | 158 |