Structural Analysis of Havana's Historic Tropicana Night Club Shells: Arcos de Cristal
| Author(s): |
Veronica Boyce
Annie Levine Maria Garlock 
Branko Glisic |
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| Medium: | conference paper |
| Language(s): | English |
| Conference: | Interfaces: Architecture, Engineering, Science, Annual Meeting of the International Association of Shell & Spatial Structures (IASS), Hamburg, 25-27 September 2017 |
| Published in: | Interfaces: Architecture . Engineering . Science |
| Year: | 2017 |
| Abstract: | The Arcos de Cristal, in the Tropicana Night Club, is a Cuban architectural icon composed of five slender reinforced concrete cylindrical shells, which narrow in telescopic form towards the stage. This paper examines the history of the design and presents a structural analysis of the shells. |
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