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List Of Thin Shell Structures
Thin-shell structures are lightweight constructions using List of structural elements, 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 Hauptbahnhof, Berlin Main Station, Berlin, Germany * Opernhaus Dortmund, 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, Imperial War Museum, Duxford, England * :File:Moscow Kievsy Rail ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt
The Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), in English House of World 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 societies. It presents art exhibitions, theater and dance performances, concerts, author readings, films and academic conferences on visual art and culture. It is one of the institutions which, due to their national and international standing and the quality of their work, receive funding from the federal government as so-called "lighthouses of culture", from the Federal Minister of State for Culture and the Media as well as from the Federal Foreign Office. As a venue and collaboration partner, HKW has hosted festivals such as the transmediale, curatorial platforms, biennials such as the Berlin Documentary Forum, and mentorship programs such as Forecast. Since 2013, its interdisciplinary elaboration on the Anthropocene discourse has included co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Shukhov Rotunda
Shukhov Rotunda (architecture), Rotunda was a round exhibition pavilion built for All-Russia Exhibition 1896 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. It was built in 1896 with a diagrid hanging cover (tensile gridshell – diagrid roof, Russian Empire patent No. 1894, dated March 12, 1899) and was the world's first Hyperboloid structure (in the center of the Rotunda). It is named after Vladimir Shukhov, who designed it in 1895. The Rotunda was high with a diameter of . The diameter of the steel Tensile structure, membrane was . The rotunda was subsequently moved to Yessentuki and demolished in the 1980s. See also References Sources * "The Nijni-Novgorod exhibition: Water tower, room under construction, springing of 91 feet span", The Engineer (UK magazine), "The Engineer", № 19.3.1897, P.292-294, London, 1897. * Elizabeth C. English [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Sagrada Familia
Sagrada is a Spanish word meaning "sacred Sacred describes something that is dedicated or set apart for the service or worship of a deity; is considered worthy of spiritual respect or devotion; or inspires awe or reverence among believers. The property is often ascribed to objects ( ...". Sagrada may also refer to: * Sagrada, Missouri, a community in the United States * La Sagrada Família, a church in Barcelona, Spain *'' Cascara sagrada'' ("sacred bark") the common name for the medicinal plant Rhamnus purshiana * ''Sagrada'' (board game), a dice-drafting board game {{dab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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British Museum
The British Museum is a Museum, public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world. It documents the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.Among the national museums in London, sculpture and decorative art, decorative and applied art are in the Victoria and Albert Museum; the British Museum houses earlier art, non-Western art, prints and drawings. The National Gallery holds the national collection of Western European art to about 1900, while art of the 20th century on is at Tate Modern. Tate Britain holds British Art from 1500 onwards. Books, manuscripts and many works on paper are in the British Library. There are significant overlaps between the coverage of the various collections. Established in 1753, the British Museum was the first public national museum. In 2023, the museum received 5,820,860 visitors, 42% more than the previous y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Queen Elizabeth II Great Court
The Queen Elizabeth II Great Court, commonly referred to simply as the Great Court, is the covered central quadrangle of the British Museum in London. It was redeveloped during the late 1990s to a design by Foster and Partners, from a 1970s design by Colin St John Wilson. The court was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 2000. Description The court has a tessellated glass roof, engineered by Buro HappoldQueen Elizabeth II Great Court, British Museum accessed 22 November 2010 and built by , covering the entire court, and surrounds the original circular [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Pylons Of Cadiz
Pylon may refer to: Structures and boundaries * Pylon (architecture), the gateway to the inner part of an Ancient Egyptian temple or Christian cathedral * Pylon, a support tower structure for suspension bridges or highways * Pylon, an orange marker designating a corner of an American football end zone * Aircraft pylon, an external mount for equipment such as engines and weapons * Electricity pylon, a steel lattice tower used to support an overhead power line * Traffic pylon, a cone-shaped marker that is placed on roads or footpaths to temporarily redirect traffic * Traction current pylon, a railroad pylon carrying at least one circuit for traction current Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Pylon'' (album), a 2015 album by Killing Joke * Pylon (band), a rock band from Athens, Georgia, US * ''Pylon'' (novel), a 1935 novel by William Faulkner ** ''Pylon'' (film) or ''The Tarnished Angels'', a 1957 movie based on the novel * Pylon (''StarCraft''), a structure used by the Protos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Expo '58
Expo 58, also known as the 1958 Brussels World's Fair (; ), was a world's fair held on the Heysel/Heizel Plateau in Brussels, Belgium, from 17 April to 19 October 1958. It was the first major world's fair registered under the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) after World War II and the fifth in Brussels overall. Expo 58 left a deep impression on Belgium. It was also the pretext for major upheavals and works in Brussels, whose boulevards were transformed into urban motorways. The Atomium, built for the occasion, has become one of the city's must-see landmarks. Background Expo 58 was the eleventh world's fair hosted by Belgium, and the fifth in Brussels, following the fairs in 1888, 1897, 1910 and 1935. In 1953, Belgium won the bid for the next world's fair, winning out over other European capitals such as Paris and London. Nearly 15,000 workers spent three years building the site on the Heysel/Heizel Plateau, north-west of central Brussels. Many of the buildings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Palau Guell
Palau, officially the Republic of Palau, is an island country in the Micronesia subregion of Oceania in the western Pacific Ocean. The Republic of Palau consists of approximately 340 islands and is the western part of the Caroline Islands, while the eastern and central parts make up the Federated States of Micronesia. It has a total area of , making it the sixteenth smallest country in the world. The most populous island is Koror, home to the country's most populous city of the same name. The capital, Ngerulmud, is located on the largest island of Babeldaob, in Melekeok State. Palau shares maritime boundaries with international waters to the north, the Federated States of Micronesia to the east, Indonesia to the south, and the Philippines to the northwest. The country was originally settled approximately 3,000 years BP by migrants from Maritime Southeast Asia. Palau was first drawn on a European map by the Bohemian missionary Paul Klein based on a description given by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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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 hillclimbing, hillclimb and other events, held in Goodwood House, West Sussex, in late June or early July. The event is scheduled to avoid clashing with the Formula One season, enabling fans to see F1 machines as well as cars and motorbikes from motor racing history. In the early years of the Festival, which started in 1993, tens of thousands attended over the weekend. As of 2014, it attracted crowds of around 100,000 on each of the three days it was held. A record crowd of 158,000 attended in 2003, before an advance-ticket-only admission policy came into force; attendance was subsequently capped at 150,000. History The Goodwood Festival of Speed was founded in 1993 by Charles Gordon-Lennox, Earl of March and Kinrara, Lord March in order to bring motor racing back to the Goodwood estate – a location steeped in British motor racing history. Sho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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City Of Arts And Sciences
The City of Arts and Sciences (, ) is a cultural and architectural complex in the city of Valencia, Spain, Valencia, Spain. It is the most important modern tourist destination in the city of Valencia and one of the 12 Treasures of Spain. The City of Arts and Sciences is situated at the southeast end of the former riverbed of the river Turia (river), Turia, which was drained and rerouted after a catastrophic 1957 Valencia flood, flood in 1957. The old riverbed was turned into a picturesque sunken park. Designed by Santiago Calatrava and Félix Candela, the project began the first stages of construction in July 1996, and was inaugurated on 16 April 1998 with the opening of L'Hemisfèric. The last major component of the City of Arts and Sciences, Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, was inaugurated on 9 October 2005, Valencian Community Day. The most recent building in the complex, L'Àgora, was opened in 2009. Originally budgeted at €300 million in 1991 for three structures, addition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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L'Oceanogràfic
L'Oceanogràfic (, , 'The Oceanographic') is an oceanarium situated in the Garden of the Turia to the southeast of the city center of Valencia, Spain, where different marine habitats are represented. It was designed by the architect Félix Candela and the structural engineers Alberto Domingo and Carlos Lázaro. It is integrated inside the cultural complex known as the City of Arts and Sciences, Ciutat de les Arts i de les Ciències (City of Arts and Sciences). It was opened on 14 February 2003. General information The Oceanographic is the largest complex of its type in Europe, spanning and holding a capacity of of water, including a dolphinarium and a ocean tank with sharks, Batoidea, rays and other fish. It is home to 45,000 animals from 500 different species—including sharks, penguins, dolphins, sea lions, walruses (until 2019), Beluga (whale), beluga whales, birds, reptiles and invertebrate—all inhabiting nine two-tiered underwater towers representing the Earth's majo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |