Thin-shell structures are lightweight constructions using shell elements.

Notable projects

Asia/Pacific

Nagoya Dome The Nagoya Dome (ナゴヤドーム), known as Vantelin Dome Nagoya (バンテリンドームナゴヤ) for sponsoring reasons, is a baseball field, constructed in 1997, located in the city of Nagoya, Japan. The dome has the capacity to seat up ...

, Nagoya, Japan *

Parish of the Holy Sacrifice The Parish of the Holy Sacrifice, also known as the Church of the Holy Sacrifice, is a landmark Catholic chapel on the University of the Philippines Diliman campus. It belongs to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cubao and its present parish priest ...

at the University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines *

Putrajaya Convention Centre The Putrajaya International Convention Centre (PICC; ms, Pusat Konvensyen Antarabangsa Putrajaya) is the main convention centre of the Federal Territory of Putrajaya. PICC rises majestically from the top of Putrajaya's highest point in Precin ...

, Putrajaya, Malaysia *

Sydney Opera House The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in Sydney. Located on the foreshore of Sydney Harbour, it is widely regarded as one of the world's most famous and distinctive buildings and a masterpiece of 20th-century architec ...

, Sydney, Australia * Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, Japan *

Tower Infinity Cheongna City Tower, Tower Infinity or Ecoprism Tower is a tower to be constructed near the Incheon Airport just outside Seoul, South Korea. The tower is dubbed as the ''World's first invisible tower''. The invisibility illusion will be achieved ...

, Seoul, South Korea

Europe

Adziogol Lighthouse __NOTOC__ The Adziogol Lighthouse ( uk, Аджигольський маяк), also known as Stanislav–Adzhyhol Lighthouse or Stanislav Range Rear light, is one of two vertical lattice hyperboloid structures of steel bars, serving as active li ...

, Kherson Oblast, Ukraine * Aquatoll, Neckarsulm, Germany *

Berlin Main Station Berlin Hauptbahnhof () (English: Berlin Central Station) is the main railway station in Berlin, Germany. It came into full operation two days after a ceremonial opening on 26 May 2006. It is located on the site of the historic Lehrter Bahnhof ...

, Berlin, Germany * Dortmund Opera House, Dortmund, Germany * Dos Hermanas Velodrome, Dos Hermanas, Spain *

Eden Project The Eden Project ( kw, Edenva) is a visitor attraction in Cornwall, England, UK. The project is located in a reclaimed china clay pit, located from the town of St Blazey and from the larger town of St Austell.Ordnance Survey (2005). ''OS ...

, Cornwall, England * Europe 1 Transmitter Building, Felsberg-Berus, Germany *

Haus der Kulturen der Welt The Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), in English House of the World's Cultures, in Berlin is Germany's national center for the presentation and discussion of international contemporary arts, with a special focus on non-European cultures and so ...

, Berlin, Germany *

Imperial War Museum Imperial War Museums (IWM) is a British national museum organisation with branches at five locations in England, three of which are in London. Founded as the Imperial War Museum in 1917, the museum was intended to record the civil and military ...

, 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 The Goodwood Festival of Speed is an annual motorsports festival featuring modern and historic motor racing vehicles taking part in a hill climb and other events, held in the grounds of Goodwood House, West Sussex, England, in late June o ...

, 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 The Queen Elizabeth II Great Court, commonly referred to simply as the Great Court, is the covered central Quadrangle (architecture), quadrangle of the British Museum in London. It was redeveloped during the late 1990s to a design by Foster a ...

of the

British Museum The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It docum ...

, London, England * Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Spain * Shukhov's Rotunda at the

All-Russia exhibition The All-Russia Industrial and Art Exhibitions were a series of 16 exhibitions in the 19th century Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eu ...

, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia * Shukhov Tower, Moscow, Russia *

Stanislav Range Front Light __NOTOC__ Stanislav Range Front Light or Small Adzhyhol Lighthouse is an active lighthouse and range light, located on a concrete pier on a tiny islet about west northwest of Rybalce, about from Kherson, Ukraine. Together with Adziogol light ...

, Kherson Oblast, Ukraine * Swiss Air Force Museum, Zurich, Switzerland * Weald and Downland Gridshell at the

Weald and Downland Open Air Museum The Weald and Downland Living Museum (formerly known as the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum until January 2017) is an open-air museum in Singleton, West Sussex. The museum is a registered charity. The museum covers , with over 50 historic bu ...

, Chichester, England * Zeiss-Planetarium, Jena, Germany

North America

Centre Pierre Charbonneau Centre Pierre Charbonneau is a community center located in the Olympic Park in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was built in 1957 and its gymnasium holds 2,700 people. The arena also hosted wrestling events at the 1976 Summer Olympics. It was origi ...

, Montreal, Canada * Dorton Arena, Raleigh, North Carolina, US * Ingalls Rink at

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the w ...

, 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 The Biosphere (french: La Biosphère), also known as the Montreal Biosphere (french: La Biosphère de Montréal), is a museum dedicated to the environment in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is housed in the former United States pavilion construct ...

, 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 Washington Dulles International Airport , typically referred to as Dulles International Airport, Dulles Airport, Washington Dulles, or simply Dulles ( ), is an international airport in the Eastern United States, located in Loudoun County and F ...

, Virginia, US

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