List of thin shell structures
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Thin-shell structures are light weight constructions using shell elements.
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- Vladimir Shukhov, the world’s first hyperboloid steel tower-shell and the world’s first steel lattice hanging and arch-like overhead covers-shells (8 exhibition pavilions of All-Russia exhibition 1896 with the total area of more than 25 thousand square meters, including the unique Shukhov's Rotunda (Russian Empire patents №№ 1894, 1895, 1896 dated March 12, 1899); The world's first double curvature lattice steel Shell, 1897, Vyksa, Russia
- 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)
- 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
- Adziogol Lighthouse, Ukraine
- Ville Hara, Lattice lookout tower, Helsinki, Finland
- 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
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