Tubular structures remain a source of architectural inspiration and practical solutions to difficult performance specifications. New developments are covered in this text, which contains papers on design innovations and applications presented at an international symposium held in Australia in 1994.

It was supposed to be a fresh start, a chance to rebuild their lives, but fate has other ideas. Their new home holds dark secrets, secrets that are meant to stay that way. Chris and Mel Suter have been having marital problems long before the night of the accident, now they find themselves fighting to keep their marriage, sanity and lives intact as they uncover the truth about their new home as danger closes in on them.

It was supposed to be a fresh start, a chance to rebuild their lives, but fate has other ideas. Their new home holds dark secrets, secrets that are meant to stay that way. Chris and Mel Suter have been having marital problems long before the night of the accident, now they find themselves fighting to keep their marriage, sanity and lives intact as they uncover the truth about their new home as danger closes in on them.

After a deadly virus breaks out, society as a whole begins to shut down and fracture but not all is as it seems. Awaking from a hospital bed Mark finds him-self thrown into a deadly game of cat and mouse with the sinister Dr Weiss as he desperately tries to be reunited with his family and uncover the truth behind the outbreak. Follow him on his journey as it takes him to the edge of despair and beyond. "A deafening whirring noise came from outside, as the papers that had been lining the streets were whipped into a frenzy, scattering into the air as if a tornado had just hit. Moments later a large military style helicopter appeared in view, a dark green metal beast with a menacing appearance, it hovered for a few seconds before finally descending, its wheels kissing the ground as it came to a stop"

'Study of a significant new arts facility and exhibition space'. Insights from the architects and planners regarding this innovative building Designed by AS-IF, GfZK-2 was completed in 2005, the second building for the Gallery of Contemporary Art in Leipzig. It was deliberately conceived as a stark contrast to the first (a converted villa), in order to raise a debate about the role and function of architecture and its relation to art. A single-storey structure based on a polygonal configuration of spatial segments, the parts form a changeable infrastructure for the contemporary practice of exhibiting and curating and they allow a simultaneous and side-by-side presence of different programmes, visual and thematic relationships, which can be re-configured by means of sliding walls and curtains for each specific exhibition. The book focuses on the uses of the building and the dialogues between the architecture and the processes that occur within and around it. To this end artistic and curatorial exhibition concepts realised in the GfZK-2 are presented alongside essays examining the performative and processual concepts of the architectural space. There are also technical data and texts providing an insight into the building process.