BUILDING

CONSTRUCTION
ASSIGNMENT
Dancing House
Architect
Frank Gehry and Vlado Milunic

Designed in
1992

Built in
1994-1996

Built-up Area
5.400 m2

Location
Prague, Czech Republic
Structure
The glass tower has a concrete structure with a conical shape which is supported atop a series of
inclined columns which rise from ground level, creating a portico and continuing to the end of the
building. The tower is closed by a double curtain wall: an interior one of retracted glass and the second
an exterior skin, also glass, supported on a steel frame which separates it from the main body of the
building.
The supports of the steel structure are fixed to the structure of the building. The vertical profiles are T-
sections connected to each other by hollow profile sections.
The building which faces the river rises as a solid cylindrical concrete volume on the corner, where it
joins with the steel and glass structure followed by a larger façade which faces the river and is
constructed on a base of 99 prefabricated concrete panels and numerous windows
Materials
The buildings, with a surface of 5842m², were constructed
in steel, glass and prefabricated concrete panels, finished
with plaster characteristic of the local architecture.
The architects, decided not to paint the exposed
materials, but to display their natural colours: the glass is
green, the concrete grey and the steel structure silver.
Louvre Pyramid

• The Louvre Pyramid is a large glass and

metal pyramid designed by Chinese-American
architect I. M. Pei, surrounded by three
smaller pyramids, in the main courtyard (Cour
Napoléon) of the Louvre Palace (
Palais du Louvre) in Paris. The large pyramid
serves as the main entrance to the 
Louvre Museum. Completed in 1989,[1] it has
become a landmark of the city of Paris.
Structure
• The pyramid used as an entrance in the Louvre's courtyard has the exact
same proportions as the Great Pyramid of Giza. The choice of this figure
also serves as a reminder of the importance of the 
Egyptian antiquities collection inside the museum, as does the Obelisk in
Place de la Concorde not far from there, the other side of the Jardin des
Tuileries. At its base, the pyramid measures 116 feet wide and 70 feet
high. 95 tons of steel and 105 tons of aluminum support the structure.
• The main pyramid is accompanied by three smaller ones. They have been
positioned to create light shafts for access to the museum’s collections.
Facts
• Lastly, the inverted pyramid is the one visible from underground, when the great pyramid was hugely
you use the Carrousel entrance to the Louvre. In the proper sense, it is an
unpopular when it was built. As
upside down, suspended pyramid.
soon as the project was
• The glass panes of the pyramids are made up of diamonds and triangles. announced, it was accused of
This mixture creates the triangular form in irregular proportions, which disfiguring the architecture.
creates the appearance of cut jewels. It consisted of 673 glass panes,
it is commonly reported that
there are in fact 666. This is
the number of the demon and
the beast in the Apocalypse.
Gateway Arch
Architect
Eero Saarinen
Built in
1963-1965
Weight
42.000tn
Height
192m
Width • The famous Gateway Arch in St. Louis,
192m Missouri is a 630 ft (192 mt)-tall monument
Location clad in stainless steel, that takes the form of a
St. Louis, Missouri, United weighted catenary arch. It is, still, the world's
States tallest freestanding arch and the tallest
constructed monument in the United States.
Structure
Faceted stainless steel faces of Arco extend 192m
between the outer sides of its triangular legs at
ground level and its top rises 192m. The structure
takes the form of an inverted catenary curve.
With its 192m high arch shape is created by
equilateral triangles of steel were stacked one on
another, getting smaller as they neared the top. The
construction allows triangles inside the arc gap
remains which helped not only with the weight of
the structure, but also allows a tram system
installed therein.

Material
The arch is constructed of carbon steel and concrete for
strength and covered with stainless steel skin below.
In a cross section, each leg of the arch is an equilateral triangle
double wall with a gap of 12.19m wide at the base tapering to
4.57m at the top core. 142 sections of steel triangles
necesitaro to complete the structure.