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Cecil Balmond is a Sri Lankan-born British designer, engineer, and artist who contributed significantly to structural engineering and architecture. He founded the design and research firm Balmond Studio and has worked with some of the world’s leading architects, including Rem Koolhaas, Toyo Ito, and Daniel Libeskind. Balmond is known for his innovative and experimental approach to structural engineering, which has resulted in some of the most iconic and complex buildings of our time, such as the CCTV headquarters in Beijing and the Serpentine Pavilion in London. In addition to his work in engineering, Balmond is also a prolific artist, writer, and educator and has received numerous awards for his contributions to design and engineering.
In 1998, Jean-François Lemoine, a French newspaper publisher, was searching for an architect to design a new home when he suffered a car accident that left him partially paralyzed. This…
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