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This cable roof structure with a span of 141 ft was designed by Eero Saarinen. It is constructed on a modular plan.

Detail of pier supports in Dulles Airport Terminal building. Point of connection of roof cable to the pier is 49.5 ft above ground. Increasing width of pier towards the ground is due to the resultant cable force at its point of connection. Compare this with a medieval cathedral buttress that also increases in width towards its base.

Interior of Dulles Airport Terminal. The tension in the roof cable is balanced by a horizontal thrust taken at the level of the floor in this slide.

Dulles International Airport, Washington D.C.

building type

airport

involved parties

Eero Saarinen (architecture)
Amman & Whitney (engineering)

address

United States of America
Staat
Virginia
state
South Riding
city
Chantilly
district
Saarinen Circle
street

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time line

period	description
1958–1962	planning and construction period

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reference

E. Saarinen: TWA Terminal Building and Dulles Airport
A.D.A. Edita Tokyo Co Ltd
article in: Architektur des 20. Jahrhunderts | Architecture in the 20th century
P. Gössel, G. Leuthäuser, E. Schickler
Taschen Verlag; 1990
page 252
Eero Saarinen's Dulles Airport wins AIA 25-year award
in: Architecture: the AIA journal, 5/1988
N. R. Greer
page 38–38,43
Whither Dulles? Cold war »landmark.«
in: Progressive Architecture, 3/1978
page 28
Dulles International Airport terminal building, Chantilly, Virginia
in: A+U: extra edition, 4/1984
page 146–161
Save Dulles Airport! [editorial]
in: Interior Design, 14/1988
P. Blake
page 300–301
- editorial

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