Only five wooden gridshells have ever been built, and none without broken timbers. Here's how the team behind this one, the roof of a Sussex museum, is cracking the conundrum. "We are all on a journey ...

As a result, the woodlands largely vanished. Timber may be a renewable material, but architects have a responsibility to design with economy in mind. One of the proudest boasts of the Gridshell team ...

...it is now! But what on earth has the world's largest timber gridshell roof got to do with England's chances of winning the 2006 World Cup? England's chances of winning the next World Cup in 2006 ...

The single-storey building has a steel-framed wall and flatroofed perimeter structure which supports four timber gridshells. They are raised above the flat roof on canted kerto columns, set on steel ...