除了俯冲，踩踏的混凝土和倾斜的不锈钢屋顶线外，在密苏里州堪萨斯城的Kauffman表演艺术中心还设有一个径向玻璃中庭，可挂在微调的钢电缆上。经过十多年的规划，设计和建设，这项由私人资助的4.13亿美元的工作定于9月16日开放。
当地人将建筑师Moshe Safdie的设计比喻为悉尼歌剧院，或一对Armadillos。设想中庭类似于大提琴的琴弦在桥梁和架子板上驱动。电缆横跨300英尺，105英尺宽的玻璃大厅，以支撑48,300平方英尺的高性能玻璃面板，每个玻璃面板大约为1.5英寸。厚的。为了防止天花板和墙壁倒入，一系列的27条螺纹杆和相应的电缆被张紧至平均400 kips或400,000磅，从而产生了250英里 /小时的风负载的效果，因为它们将它们靠在建筑物的超结构上。
“The cables were by far the dominant force that we needed to consider,” says G. Kelley Gipple, principal of locally based Structural Engineering Associates Inc., the main building's engineer of record.
尽管大多数工作都很顺利，但该项目在2009年遇到了一条障碍，当时125英尺高的动臂升降机失败，翻倒并杀死了操作员。该家庭正在杰克逊县法院起诉制造商，JLG和其他人因不法死亡而起诉。
Double Yolk
该建筑物像两个蛋黄一样组织，该建筑物包含4,500吨钢制支撑架和弯曲的盒桁架。它们支持预制的混凝土和不锈钢外部结构，该结构包裹了两个现场混凝土碗：一个1,800个座位的舞台剧院和一个1,600个座位的管弦乐队。对于声学，每个空间彼此隔离，并且构造了整个冠层。
就像一个有弦的soloist in concert, the elegant cable-glass atrium, built by Germany-based Novum Structures LLC, took center stage during a key period of construction last year, forcing the general contractor, locally based JE Dunn Construction, to carefully sequence work around the delicate glazing operation.
“这是一个独一无二的结构,所以罗t of cutting-edge planning that had to go into it,” says Kyle McQuiston, project executive for JE Dunn.
去年夏天，由于电缆系统受到张紧（从中央网格向外），邓恩不得不在建筑物的外部预制混凝土墙，内部墙壁和电梯上进行饰演，并完成拉动工作。一旦张紧工作完成，该建筑物的钢铁成员将2英寸的成员从原始位置转移到6英寸。然后，工人清楚地完成了建造。
The big pull took place outside the glass atrium, across a driveway that lies underneath the stringed fanfare, where 27 rods anchor into a 50-ft-tall, 4-ft-thick concrete wall bolted into bedrock. On one side of the wall are the below-grade portions of the performance halls; the other is a 1,000-space parking garage.
At about 50 ft high at their opposite ends, the rods pull against articulating, 20-in.-thick mast tubes that frame out the glass-wall's radius. Inside the atrium, one cable follows the roof slope while another curves downward, forming a truss shape. Both cables pin to 70-ft-high brace frames, which bear on columns.
Arup, the building's design engineer, chose hardier rods outside for safety. Fire models showed that a bus exploding in the driveway would pose more risk to melting connections than would an interior fire.
围墙的垂直负载是由巨大的混凝土壁承担的。为了获得额外的支撑，将墙壁绑在主要结构中的混凝土支柱。这支持车道平板并用压缩力解决水平张力。“如果您可以提供建筑物的圆形负载路径 - 将所有部队从建筑物内的张力网中保留，那么基础要小得多。”“我们可以拿走这座建筑物并将其从基础上捡起，电缆网和玻璃中庭将保持其完整性。”
