List of thin-shell structures

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Thin-shell structures are lightweight constructions using shell elements.

## Contents

* 1 Notable projects
* 1.1 Asia/Pacific
* 1.2 Europe
* 1.3 North America
* 2 References
* 3 External links

## 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
* Norwich Sports Village,[1] Norwich, UK

### 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
* Main Terminal of Washington Dulles International Airport, Virginia, 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

## References

1. ↑ Shell Structures: lessons in structural efficiency for sustainable construction, The Structural Engineer, IStructE 2020, https://www.istructe.org/journal/volumes/volume-98-(2020)/issue-4/shell-structures-lessons-in-structural-efficiency/

## External links

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

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