List of thin-shell structures

Thin-shell structures are lightweight constructions using shell elements.

Notable projects

The world's first membrane roof and lattice steel shell in the Shukhov Rotunda, Nizhny Novgorod, All-Russia exhibition, 1895

Geodesic shell of Nagoya Dome by Takenaka Corporation, Nagoya, Japan, 1997.

Shell of Kresge Auditorium by Eero Saarinen, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1953.

Asia/Pacific

• Nagoya Dome, Nagoya, Japan
• Parish of the Holy Sacrifice at the University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines
• Putrajaya Convention Centre, Putrajaya, Malaysia
• Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia
• Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, Japan
• Tower Infinity, Seoul, South Korea

Europe

• Adziogol Lighthouse, Kherson Oblast, Ukraine
• Aquatoll, Neckarsulm, Germany
• Berlin Main Station, Berlin, Germany
• Dortmund Opera House, Dortmund, Germany
• Dos Hermanas Velodrome, Dos Hermanas, Spain
• Eden Project, Cornwall, England
• Espace des Inventions, Swiss national exposition of 1964, Lausanne, Switzerland
• Europe 1 Transmitter Building, Felsberg-Berus, Germany
• Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
• Imperial War Museum, Duxford, England
• Parabolic steel-and-glass roof of the Kiyevsky railway station, Moscow, Russia
• Korkeasaari Lookout Tower, Helsinki, Finland
• L'Oceanogràfic at the City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia, Spain
• Lotus Sculpture at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, UK
• Milan Trade Fair, Milan, Italy
• Palau Guell, Barcelona, Spain
• Philips Pavilion at the Expo '58, Brussels, Belgium
• Pylons of Cadiz, Cadiz, Spain
• Queen Elizabeth II Great Court of the British Museum, London, England
• Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Spain
• Shukhov's Rotunda at the All-Russia exhibition, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
• Shukhov Tower, Moscow, Russia
• Stanislav Range Front Light, Kherson Oblast, Ukraine
• Swiss Air Force Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
• Weald and Downland Gridshell at the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum, Chichester, England
• Zeiss-Planetarium, Jena, Germany

North America

• Centre Pierre Charbonneau, Montréal, Canada
• Dorton Arena, North Carolina, US
• Ingalls Rink at Yale University, Connecticut, US
• Kresge Auditorium, Massachusetts, US
• Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, Missouri, US
• McDonnell Planetarium at the St. Louis Science Center, Missouri, US
• Montreal Biosphère, Montreal, Canada
• Payson Athletic Center, Arizona, US
• Scotiabank Saddledome, Alberta, Canada
• Spaceship Earth at Disney World, Florida, US
• TWA Flight Center of John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York, US
• Washington Dulles International Airport, Virginia, US

External links

• Thin-shell structures at Structurae
• Double thin-shells structures at Structurae