

This is a 18-meter-high sculptures based on tensegrity concepts:Needle Tower (1968).
This very tall abstract sculpture depicts a tapering tower that is made of aluminum and stainless steel. Pipes of varying lengths and dimensions are strung together with a single piece of stainless steel.Tensegrity describes a closed structural system composed of a set of three or more elongate compression struts within a network of tension tendons, the combined parts mutually supportive in such a way that the struts do not touch one another, but press outwardly against nodal points in the tension network to form a firm, triangulated, prestressed, tension and compression unit.
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