A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Building located at tip of small peninsula near port entrance is founded on 700 piles 90 cm diam, some of them 21 m long; it will house 2800-seat theater and three smaller halls; prestressed concrete roof is formed by array of huge shells suggesting ship sails and is composed of intersecting spherical segments of 75-m curvature radius; whole roof consists of 2350 cast-in-situ elements weighing from 7 to 12 tons each, and is covered with decorative white ceramic tile; description of shell assembly and method of detecting cracks by injecting structure with radioactive solution.
Building located at tip of small peninsula near port entrance is founded on 700 piles 90 cm diam, some of them 21 m long; it will house 2800-seat theater and three smaller halls; prestressed concrete roof is formed by array of huge shells suggesting ship sails and is composed of intersecting spherical segments of 75-m curvature radius; whole roof consists of 2350 cast-in-situ elements weighing from 7 to 12 tons each, and is covered with decorative white ceramic tile; description of shell assembly and method of detecting cracks by injecting structure with radioactive solution.
Future opera house in Sydney (Australia)
Le futur opera de Sydney
Brocard, R. (author)
1967
10 pages
Article (Journal)
French
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Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia : 1957-73
| TIBKAT | 1981
| Engineering Index Backfile | 1969
| Engineering Index Backfile | 1965
| Taylor & Francis Verlag | 2005