Jade JANSEN
Amsterdam
Eero Saarinen completed the Ingalls Rink hockey stadium on Yale’s campus in 1958. It is affectionately known as the Yale Whale, because its curved roof evokes a humpback breaching the water. A critique in the December 1958 issue of Architectural Forum called it “one of the most surprising new buildings in the world,” and said the modernist architect had “shaped a structure loaded with personality.”A concrete arch supported by a cable net and later cable ties made for a marvel of engineering.
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