Adziogol Lighthouse

Adziogol Lighthouse

Adziogol Lighthouse ( _uk. Аджигольський маяк; _ru. Аджигольский маяк) is a graceful vertical lattice hyperboloid structure of steel bars, 70 meters high.

Designed by Vladimir Shukhov in 1910, it is situated in Dneprovsky Liman firth about 30 km from Kherson, Ukraine. Its light can be seen for up to convert|17|nmi|km.

ee also

* Hyperboloid structure
* Steel lattice shell structure
* List of Hyperboloid structures
* List of thin shell structures

External links

* [http://www.panoramio.com/photo/6180994 Adziogol Lighthouse at Panoramio]
* [http://www.architectureweek.com/2003/0820/culture_1-1.html Adziogol Lighthouse - "Postcard from Ukraine"]
* [http://www.photobox.ru/gallery/advsearch/?word=%E0%E4%E6%E8%E3%EE%EB%FC%F1%EA%E8%E9&step=0&step_and=%2Bdescr%7C%E0%E4%E6%E8%E3%EE%EB%FC%F1%EA%E8%E9&step_not=&action=s&paid=all&pro=0&where=descr&parent=0 Photos of Adziogol Lighthouse]
* [http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Adziogol_Lighthouse.html Adziogol Lighthouse from greatbuildings.com]
* [http://elib.uni-stuttgart.de/opus/volltexte/2003/1291/pdf/Leuchtturm_1508_1_83_Nr_1_-_31.pdf Calculation of a lighthouse after the system of engineer's Vladimir Shukhov (in German)]
* [http://spec.lib.vt.edu/IAWA/inventories/English.html Elizabeth Cooper English] : [http://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI9989589/ “Arkhitektura i mnimosti”: The origins of Soviet avant-garde rationalist architecture in the Russian mystical-philosophical and mathematical intellectual tradition”,] a dissertation in architecture, 264p., University of Pennsylvania, 2000.
* [http://www.uibk.ac.at/baugeschichte/mitarbeiter/graefe.html Rainer Graefe] : [http://www.shukhov.ru/deutsch.html “Vladimir G. Šuchov 1853-1939 - Die Kunst der sparsamen Konstruktion.”] , S.192, Stuttgart, DVA, 1990, ISBN 3-421-02984-9. [http://www.tec21.ch/pdf/tec21_4120041723.pdf]
* Peter Gössel, Gabriele Leuthäuser, Eva Schickler: [http://eng.archinform.net/quellen/10.htm “Architecture in the 20th century”] , Taschen Verlag; 1990, ISBN 3-8228-1162-9 and ISBN 3-8228-0550-5
* Kevin Matthews, [http://www.greatbuildings.com/gbc_cd_rom.html "The Great Buildings Collection"] , CD-ROM, Artifice, 2001, ISBN 0-9667098-4-5.
* [http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=46.4944335&lon=32.2327709&z=14&l=0&m=s Adziogol Lighthouse at WikiMapia]


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