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Here are some good structural links to follow:

General Reference:

• Godden Slide Library at University of California, Berekely
• National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering

Buildings and Bridges:

• The Great Buildings Collection: www.greatbuildings.com/gbc.html
• The Bridge Engineering Home Page: www.best.com/~solvers/bridge.html
• The Institute for Structural Analysis Images and Movies Database: www.cis.tu-graz.ac.at/ifb/img/img_fr.htm
• Bridge Design and Construction: www.udel.edu/educ/edst667/houston/bridges.htm
• Florida Department of Transportation, Structures Design Office: www.dot.state.fl.us/structures/

Structural Designers and Their Work:

• Ove Arup & Partners
• Santiago Calatrava:
          Calatrava.com
           Santiago Calatrava: The Unofficial Site
           www.archinform.de/arch/454.htm
• Eladio Dieste:
  www.puc.cl/faba/ARQUITECTURA/AUTORES/DiesteE.html
  web.arch-mag.com/
  www.rau.edu.uy/uruguay/cultura/dieste.htm
  imagenes.org/ctlg/dieste.htm
• Gustave Eiffel: www.tour-eiffel.fr/teiffel/tour_uk.fichedoc/page/pg_inv_1.htm
• Antoni Gaudi: www.gaudi.tm/ingles/i_vida/
• Robert Le Richolais: www.arch-assoc.org.uk/Riocoexh.html
• T. Y. Lin: www.tylin.com/internet/whatwedo/unitedst/bridges/new.html
• Jean Muller: www.jmuller.com
• John Roebling: www.inventionfactory.com/history/main.html
• Jorg Schlaich: www.sbp.de/
• Skilling Ward Magnuson Barkshire: www.skilling.com/projects/projects_frame.html
• Buckminster Fuller:
  Buckminster Fuller Institutue
  Buckminster Fuller Virtual Institute
  SYNERGETICS: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking,  by R. Buckminster Fuller (His entire book online!)
  www.westnet.com/~crywalt/Bucky.html

Fabric Structures

• Reference

          The Tensile Structures Yellow Pages

• Associations

IASS International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures
AFMA American Fiber Manufacturers Association
Working Group for Textile Architecture
Technet's list of lightweight structure links

• Firms

          FTL/Happold
          BIRDAIR
          Tensar Tension Membrane Structures
          Tension Span Structures Pty Ltd
          Huntington Design

• Software

          ForTen
          Tent design software
          DesignWorkshop Lofting Machine

• Educational

          Tensile Tiles (Where to get liquid film!)
          Surface Viewer

• Products

          McCalls Special Products - Tension Structures

 

Concrete Shell Structures

• Milo Ketchum
• Milo Ketchum Archive
• Mark Ketchum

 

Cable Stayed & Misc. Structures

• Cable Stayed Bridges
• Mark Ketchum
  

Tensegrity

• A Technology for Designing Tensegrity Domes and Spheres
• 8v Octahedral Double-Layer Tensegrity Dome Photographs
• Tensegrity Viewer This is a great Java applet that lets you view and rotate 3-D tensegrity models
• Tensegrity Jitterbug (Animations)
• Visualization of Tensegrity Structures
• Letter on Tensegrity from Buckminster Fuller
• Kenneth Snelson
• Works of Kenneth Snelson
• Catalogue of Symmetric Tensegrities
• Tensegritoy
• Tensegrity Models

Polyhedra

• Pavilion of Polyhedriality (has great links page)
• The Platonic Solids and one odd-ball Polyhedron

Structural Design

     IES - Structural Analysis & Design Tools (Visual Analysis)
     Structural Analysis Education Help Page
     The World-Wide Web Virtual Library-Structural Engineering