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Chapel of Our Lady of Solitude, San Jose del Altillo, Coyoacan, Mexico City
RIBA76844
NOTES: The architect was Enrique de la Mora while the engineer Felix Candela was responsible for the paraboloid roof structure. The chapel is also known as the Church of the Miraculous Virgin.
Lambert Airport, St Louis, Missouri
RIBA76950
NOTES: This image was feature in an exhibition of 'One Hundred Years of Architecture in America' held at the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1958.
All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, Wimbledon, London: the covered court
RIBA77794
NOTES: The concrete shell roof forms a parabloid with a span of 175 ft.
House of the Cultures of the World (Haus der Kulturen der Welt) Tiergarten, Berlin
RIBA112326
NOTES: Formerly known as Kongresshalle (Congress Hall) this was built originally as a conference centre and was the United States' contribution to the 1957 Interbau, an international architecture exhibition. Regarded as a technically revolutionary and creatively brilliant achievement at the time, its parabolic roof was nicknamed the "Pregnant Oyster". Although in 1980 the roof collapsed (since restored), as the 1950s technology had not quite lived up to the architect's vision. It now houses a centre for contemporary non-European art.
House of the Cultures of the World (Haus der Kulturen der Welt) Tiergarten, Berlin
RIBA112327
NOTES: Formerly known as Kongresshalle (Congress Hall) this was built originally as a conference centre and was the United States' contribution to the 1957 Interbau, an international architecture exhibition. Regarded as a technically revolutionary and creatively brilliant achievement at the time, its parabolic roof was nicknamed the "Pregnant Oyster". Although in 1980 the roof collapsed (since restored), as the 1950s technology had not quite lived up to the architect's vision. It now houses a centre for contemporary non-European art.
House of the Cultures of the World (Haus der Kulturen der Welt) Tiergarten, Berlin
RIBA112328
NOTES: Formerly known as Kongresshalle (Congress Hall) this was built originally as a conference centre and was the United States' contribution to the 1957 Interbau, an international architecture exhibition. Regarded as a technically revolutionary and creatively brilliant achievement at the time, its parabolic roof was nicknamed the "Pregnant Oyster". Although in 1980 the roof collapsed (since restored), as the 1950s technology had not quite lived up to the architect's vision. It now houses a centre for contemporary non-European art.
