Thin-shell structures are lightweight constructions using shell elements.
Notable projects
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, Montreal, Canada
Dorton Arena, Raleigh, 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, Calgary, 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
Thin-shell structures
Lists of buildings and structures
