Search
Menu
Home
Sources
About
Contacts
Shukhov Rotunda
Shukhov
Rotunda
was a
round
exhibition
pavilion
built for
All-Russia Exhibition 1896
in
Nizhny
Novgorod, Russia
. It was built in
1896
with a
diagrid
hanging
cover
and was the
world's first Hyperboloid structure
. It is named after
Vladimir Shukhov
, who
designed
it in
1895
.
The Rotunda
was high with a
diameter
of. The diameter of the
steel
membrane
was.
The
rotunda
was
subsequently
moved to
Yessentuki
and
demolished
in the
1980s
.