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6 days agoBeyond the Shell: Felix Candela's Palacio de los Deportes for the 1968 Mexico Olympics
However, the main problem with the project was one of scale. The building had to cover an unobstructed interior area of approximately 27,000 square meters. This span forced Candela to go beyond his comfort zone of the thin concrete shells that had made his reputation and into a new structural typology. His solution was a geodesic dome.
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