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Lambert–St. Louis Municipal Airport

airport, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States

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terminal design

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    In Minoru Yamasaki

    Yamasaki designed the Lambert–St. Louis Municipal Airport terminal in Missouri, which was notable for its impressive use of concrete vaults and which strongly influenced subsequent American air-terminal design. In 1955, the year in which Hellmuth left the partnership, Yamasaki was commissioned to design the U.S. consulate in Kōbe,…

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    In construction: Postwar developments in long-span construction

    Louis Lambert Airport Terminal (1954), designed by Hellmuth, Yamasaki and Leinweber, has a large hall 36.6 metres (120 feet) square, spanned by four intersecting thin-shell concrete barrel vaults supported at the four corners; the thickness of the shell varies from 20 centimetres (8 inches) at the…

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