List of thin-shell structures

Thin-shell structures are light weight constructions using shell elements.

Notable Projects

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

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

Shukhov Tower in Moscow - lattice thin shell by Vladimir Shukhov, 1922. Currently under threat of demolition, the tower is at the top of UNESCO's 'Endangered Buildings' list, and there is an international campaign to save it.

The World First Membrane roof and lattice steel Shell in the Shukhov Rotunda, Nizhny Novgorod, All-Russia exhibition, 1896

• Vladimir Shukhov, the world’s first hyperboloid steel shell and Shukhov's Rotunda, Nizhny Novgorod, All-Russia exhibition, 1896.
• Vladimir Shukhov, The world's first double curvature lattice steel Shell, Vyksa, Russia, 1897.
• Vladimir Shukhov, Adziogol Lighthouse, Ukraine, 1911
• Antonio Gaudi, Thin shell conoidal, hyperbolic, parabolic, and hyperbolic paraboloid vaults of sandwiched tile (The Church of the Colonia Guell, The Sagrada Familia, The Sagrada Familia Schoolhouse, The Palau Guell), 1916
• Vladimir Shukhov, Shukhov Tower, Moscow, 1922
• Eero Saarinen, TWA Flight Center of John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York[1]
• Eero Saarinen, Washington Dulles International Airport
• Buro Happold and Norman Foster, Queen Elizabeth II Great Court, British Museum, London
• Leandro V. Locsin, Parish of the Holy Sacrifice, University of the Philippines, Diliman
• Nagoya Dome, Nagoya, Japan
• Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, Japan
• Ville Hara, Lattice lookout tower, Helsinki, Finland
• Various Architects, Project of Cheongna City Tower
• Le Corbusier, Iannis Xenakis, «Poème électronique» Philips Pavilion, Expo '58, Brussels
• Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
• Kresge Auditorium, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Ingalls Rink, Yale University
• Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, St. Louis
• Gyo Obata, the McDonnell Planetarium at the St. Louis Science Center in St. Louis
• Dorton Arena, Raleigh
• Imperial War Museum, Duxford
• Centre Pierre Charbonneau, Montreal
• Hyperbolic paraboloid roof Pengrowth Saddledome, Calgary
• Aquatoll lattice thin-shell
• Dos Hermanas Velodrome Roof
• Berlin Hauptbahnhof (Berlin Central Station)[2]
• Dortmund Opera House
• Kingdome, Seattle
• L'Oceanogràfic, Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències, Valencia
• Payson Multipurpose Center, Payson, Arizona
• Planetarium, Carl-Zeiss-Promenade, Jena, Germany
• Putrajaya Convention Centre, Malaysia[3]
• Swiss Air Force Museum, Zurich, Swiss
• Buro Happold and Edward Cullinan Architects, Weald and Downland Open Air Museum, Chichester, [4]
• Vela - Milan Trade Fair, Milan, Italy