Here’s a classic Eero Saarinen design, the Ingalls Hockey Rink for Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Completed in 1958, this building changed roof structural systems for arena types. The cost ended up being twice the original budget, and there have been costly renovations since.
The timber roof is supported by tensile cables and reinforced concrete arches. Saarinen developed a fluid typology for these arches give the building a pleasant round hump.
(kathia shieh– flickr/creative commons license)
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(featured image by Carol M. Highsmith on wikipedia/public domain)
