Shukhov Tower

The Shukhov radio tower ( _ru. Шуховская башня), also known as the Shabolovka tower is a broadcasting tower in Moscow designed by Vladimir Shukhov. The 160-metre-high free-standing steel structure was built in 1919–1922 during the Russian Civil War. It is a hyperboloid structure (hyperbolic steel gridshell) composed of hyperboloids of revolution.

The tower is located a few kilometers south of the Moscow Kremlin, but is not accessible to tourists. The street address of the tower is "Shabolovka Street, 37", hence the tower's informal name.

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Thanks to its lattice structure, the steel shell of Shukhov Tower in Shabolovka experiences minimum wind load, which is the main hazard for high-rising buildings. The tower sections are single-cavity hyperboloids of rotation made of straight beams, the ends of which rest against circular foundations.

ee also

*Vladimir Shukhov
*Hyperboloid structure
*List of Hyperboloid structures
*Shukhov tower on the Oka River
*Constructivist architecture
*List of towers

External links

* [http://kylekeeton.com/2008/03/russia-moscows-eiffel-tower.html Shukhov Tower in Moscow]
* [http://www.passportmagazine.ru/article/1289/ The Shukhov's Radio Tower]
* [http://www.shukhov.org/news.html?n=34&id=1#news_34 International campaign to save the Shukhov Tower in Moscow]
* [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/download.php?Number=912047&t=k&om=1 Shukhov Towers in Google Maps]
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* [http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/380876/ 3D model of the Shukhov Tower]
* [http://arch.designcommunity.com/viewtopic.php?t=8725 Views of the hyperboloid tower]
* [http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/tags/richard%20pare Richard Pare's photo of the Shukhov Tower]
* [http://www.pubs.asce.org/WWWdisplay.cgi?0510374 Invention of Hyperboloid Structures]
* [http://www.shukhov.org/tower.html Shukhov Tower Foundation]
* [http://www.i-b.ch/01_Buero/Tec21_Suchov.pdf Die sparsame Konstruktion]

* [http://www.costruzioni.net/articoli/Shukhov/Shukhov.pdf "Vladimir G. Shukhov e la leggerezza dell’acciaio"] , [http://www.giovannardierontini.it/ Fausto Giovannardi]

* [http://www.dnxh.cn/blog/article.asp?id=191 Shukhov's Towers]

References

* P.Gössel, G.Leuthäuser, E.Schickler; [http://eng.archinform.net/quellen/10.htm "Architecture in the 20th century"] ; Taschen Verlag; 1990; ISBN 3-8228-4123-4.
* [http://spec.lib.vt.edu/IAWA/inventories/English.html Elizabeth C. English] , [http://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI9989589/ “Arkhitektura i mnimosti”: The origins of Soviet avant-garde rationalist architecture in the Russian mystical-philosophical and mathematical intellectual tradition”,] a dissertation in architecture, 264 p., University of Pennsylvania, 2000.

* [http://www.shukhov.ru/deutsch.html “Vladimir G. Suchov 1853-1939. Die Kunst der sparsamen Konstruktion.”] , [http://www.uibk.ac.at/baugeschichte/mitarbeiter/graefe.html Rainer Graefe] und andere, 192 S., Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart, 1990, ISBN 3-421-02984-9.
* Jesberg, Paulgerd Die Geschichte der Bauingenieurkunst, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart (Germany) , ISBN 3-421-03078-2, 1996; pp. 198-9.
* Ricken, Herbert Der Bauingenieur, Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin (Germany) , ISBN 3-345-00266-3, 1994; pp. 230.
* Picon, Antoine (dir.), "L'art de l'ingenieur : constructeur, entrepreneur, inventeur", Éditions du Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1997, ISBN 2-85850-911-5

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