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Fancy roofs will score at Tokyo olympics
Unusual design features of roofs of 3 major structures for 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo; roof over swimming pools hangs from 2 masts spaced 415 ft apart and twin ground beams between roof cable anchorages form sides of pools; gymnasium has 220-ft diam circular roof suspended from one mast located at edge of building; circular wall serves as compression ring for trusses suspended from mast; another gymnasium has concrete hyperbolic-paraboloid shells supported by 2 intersecting ribs.
Fancy roofs will score at Tokyo olympics
Unusual design features of roofs of 3 major structures for 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo; roof over swimming pools hangs from 2 masts spaced 415 ft apart and twin ground beams between roof cable anchorages form sides of pools; gymnasium has 220-ft diam circular roof suspended from one mast located at edge of building; circular wall serves as compression ring for trusses suspended from mast; another gymnasium has concrete hyperbolic-paraboloid shells supported by 2 intersecting ribs.
Fancy roofs will score at Tokyo olympics
Eng News-Rec
Engineering News-Record ; 171
1963
2 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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