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 sponsorship reasons, is a domed baseball stadium, constructed in 1997, located in the city of Nagoya, Japan. The dome has the capacity of ...

, Nagoya, Japan * Parish of the Holy Sacrifice at the

University of the Philippines Diliman The University of the Philippines Diliman (also called UPD; ), also referred to as UP Diliman, is a State university and college (Philippines), public, coeducational, Research university, research university located in Diliman, Quezon City, Ph ...

, Quezon City, Philippines * Putrajaya Convention Centre, Putrajaya, Malaysia *

Sydney Opera House The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue Performing arts center, performing arts centre in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Located on the foreshore of Sydney Harbour, it is widely regarded as one of the world's most famous and distinctive b ...

, Sydney, Australia *

Tokyo Dome is an indoor stadium in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. It was designed as a baseball stadium following its predecessor, Korakuen Stadium (whose former site is now occupied by the Tokyo Dome Hotel and a plaza for this stadium). In Japan, it is often us ...

, 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 w ...

, Seoul, South Korea

Europe

Adziogol Lighthouse __NOTOC__ The Adziogol Lighthouse (), 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 lighthouses in Dnieper Estuary, Ukraine. I ...

, Kherson Oblast, Ukraine * Aquatoll, Neckarsulm, Germany * Berlin Main Station, Berlin, Germany * Dortmund Opera House, Dortmund, Germany * Dos Hermanas Velodrome, Dos Hermanas, Spain *

Eden Project The Eden Project () is a visitor attraction in Cornwall, England. The project is located in a reclaimed china clay clay pit, pit.Ordnance Survey (2005). ''OS Explorer Map 107 – Fowey, Looe & Lostwithiel''. . The complex is dominated by two h ...

, Cornwall, England * Espace des Inventions, Swiss national exposition of 1964, Lausanne, Switzerland * Europe 1 Transmitter Building, Felsberg-Berus, Germany *

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 societi ...

, Berlin, Germany *

Imperial War Museum The Imperial War Museum (IWM), currently branded "Imperial War Museums", is a British national museum. It is headquartered in London, with five branches in England. Founded as the Imperial War Museum in 1917, it was intended to record the civ ...

, Duxford, England * Parabolic steel-and-glass roof of the Kiyevsky railway station, Moscow, Russia * Korkeasaari Lookout Tower, Helsinki, Finland *

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 Cande ...

at the

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 Cit ...

, 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 hillclimbing, hillclimb and other events, held in Goodwood House, West Sussex, in late June or early July. Th ...

, UK * Milan Trade Fair, Milan, Italy *

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, w ...

, Barcelona, Spain * Philips Pavilion at the

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 Internati ...

, Brussels, Belgium *

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 mar ...

, 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 of the British Museum in London. It was redeveloped during the late 1990s to a design by Foster and Partners, from a 1970s ...

of the

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 cu ...

, London, England *

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. T ...

, Barcelona, Spain * Shukhov's Rotunda at the All-Russia exhibition, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia *

Shukhov Tower The Shukhov Radio Tower (), also known as the Shabolovka Tower (), is a broadcasting tower deriving from the Russian avant-garde in Moscow designed by Vladimir Shukhov. The free-standing steel diagrid structure was built between 1920 and 19 ...

, 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 Rybalche, about from Kherson, Ukraine. Together with Adziogol lighth ...

, 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 (known as the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum until January 2017) is an open-air museum in Singleton, West Sussex, Singleton, West Sussex. The museum is a Charitable organization, registered charity. The ...

, Chichester, England * Zeiss-Planetarium, Jena, Germany * Norwich Sports Village,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/ Norwich, UK

North America

Centre Pierre Charbonneau Centre Pierre Charbonneau is a community centre located in the Olympic Park, Montreal, Olympic Park in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was built in 1957 and its gymnasium holds 2,700 people. The arena has hosted a variety of events, including the ...

, Montréal, Canada * Dorton Arena, North Carolina, US *

Ingalls Rink David S. Ingalls Rink is a hockey rink in New Haven, Connecticut, designed by architect Eero Saarinen and built between 1953 and 1958 for Yale University. It is commonly referred to as The Whale, due to its shape. The building was constructed fo ...

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

, Connecticut, US *

Kresge Auditorium Kresge Auditorium (MIT Building W16) is an auditorium structure at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, located at 48 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was designed by the Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen, with g ...

, Massachusetts, US *

Lambert-St. Louis International Airport St. Louis Lambert International Airport is the primary international airport serving metropolitan St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Commonly referred to as Lambert Field or simply Lambert, it is the largest and busiest airport in the sta ...

, Missouri, US * McDonnell Planetarium at the St. Louis Science Center, Missouri, US *

Montreal Biosphère The Biosphere, also known as the Montreal Biosphere (, ), is a museum dedicated to the environment in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is housed in the former United States pavilion constructed for Expo 67 located within the grounds of Parc Jean-D ...

, Montreal, Canada * Payson Athletic Center, Arizona, US *

Scotiabank Saddledome Scotiabank Saddledome is a multi-use indoor arena in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Located in Stampede Park in the southeast end of downtown Calgary, the Saddledome was built in 1983 to replace the Stampede Corral as the home of the Calgary Flames ...

, Alberta, Canada * Spaceship Earth at

Disney World The Walt Disney World Resort is an entertainment resort complex located about southwest of Orlando, Florida, United States. Opened on October 1, 1971, the resort is operated by Disney Experiences, a division of the Walt Disney Company. ...

, Florida, US *

TWA Flight Center The TWA Flight Center, also known as the Trans World Flight Center, is an airport terminal and hotel complex at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) in New York City. The original terminal building, or head house, operated as a terminal ...

John F. Kennedy International Airport John F. Kennedy International Airport is a major international airport serving New York City and its metropolitan area. JFK Airport is located on the southwestern shore of Long Island, in Queens, New York City, bordering Jamaica Bay. It is ...

, New York, US *

Washington Dulles International Airport Washington Dulles International Airport ( ) – commonly known by its former name of Dulles International Airport, by its airport code of IAD, or simply as Dulles Airport – is an international airport in the Eastern United States, located w ...

, Virginia, US

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