First Beamless Steel Building (Jan, 1942)
First Beamless Steel Building
MADE entirely of “dished” plates of steel only 3/16 of an inch thick, this building was put up without any beams or other ordinary type of support. It is called “egg-shell type” construction. Measuring 108 feet in diameter and 28 feet high, the building is fireproof and soundproof and insulated throughout. It was built in Chicago.
and in a rainstorm, you can call it a “snare drum-type construction”. because that “soundproof” part, yeah, not so much.
the summer after i moved out of the mobile home (never again!) and into a proper framed house, one night i found myself wondering what it was that was missing. that had been missing for a few weeks, already, that i was only just then noticing. after a while it came to me — no rattling, drumming noise, even though it was raining outside.
don’t even ask me about acorns in fall. they’d make that thing into a “cymbal-type construction”, were there any oak trees overhead. (wonder if the thing still stands?)
Klaatu Barada Nikto!
I’d like to know what it was meant for. Apparently something that didn’t need windows.
what was it far ,a planetarium?
It looks like one of Buckmaster Fuller’s projects on steroids.
It kind of creeps me out.
*shudders
Looks like the Bridge Section of the Origianl Star Trek Enterprise (albeit predates ST by 25 years).