Shukhov Tower

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Coordinates: 55°43′02″N 37°36′41″E / 55.71722°N 37.61139°E / 55.71722; 37.61139

Shukhov Tower in Moscow. Currently under threat of demolition, the tower is at the top of UNESCO's 'Endangered Buildings' list, and there is an international campaign to save it.

The Shukhov radio tower (Russian: 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).

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.

[edit] Structure

Due 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.

[edit] See also

Shukhov Tower Project of 350 metres, 1919

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

[edit] External links

(English)

• Shukhov Tower in Moscow
• The Shukhov's Radio Tower
• International campaign to save the Shukhov Tower in Moscow
• Shukhov Towers in Google Maps
• Shuhovskaya Tower in the Structurae database
• 3D model of the Shukhov Tower
• Views of the hyperboloid tower
• Richard Pare's photo of the Shukhov Tower
• Invention of Hyperboloid Structures
• Shukhov Tower Foundation

(German)

• Die sparsame Konstruktion

(Italian)

• "Vladimir G. Shukhov e la leggerezza dell’acciaio", Fausto Giovannardi

(Chinese)

• Shukhov's Towers

[edit] References

(English)

• P.Gössel, G.Leuthäuser, E.Schickler; "Architecture in the 20th century"; Taschen Verlag; 1990; ISBN 3-8228-4123-4.
• Elizabeth C. English, “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.

(German)

• “Vladimir G. Suchov 1853-1939. Die Kunst der sparsamen Konstruktion.”, 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.

(French)

• Picon, Antoine (dir.), "L'art de l'ingenieur : constructeur, entrepreneur, inventeur", Éditions du Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1997, ISBN 2-85850-911-5

[edit] Photos

The world's first hyperboloid structure by Vladimir Shukhov, Polibino, Lipetsk Oblast, 2009	Shukhov Tower in Moscow, 2007	Shukhov Tower, 2006	Shukhov Tower, 2006
Shukhov Tower in Moscow, a view from within tower, 2009	Shukhov Tower in Moscow, a view from within tower, 2009	Shukhov Tower, 2006	Shukhov Tower in Moscow, 2007

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