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Eero Saarinen designed Yale University’s Ingalls Ice Arena in the late 1950s. Saarinen was an alumnus of Yale and had a great patron in then-university president A. Whitney Griswold. Critical reception of the building was initially negative. The press dubbed it the “Yale Whale,” a moniker that is now generally used affectionately.
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Comments (3)
"The Yale Whale," a tremedous building.
Posted by Anonymous | February 9, 2007 9:40 PM
Posted on February 9, 2007 21:40
Interesting shape, but entirely ordinary on the inside, as I remember it.
Posted by suits_me | February 12, 2007 4:44 AM
Posted on February 12, 2007 04:44
Ordinary on the inside? It's the inside that's more striking--the sweeping ceiling of bent wood, rigidly parallel planks that gently slope to the rink's apex. No interior columns, either--the spine of the building provides all of the structural support for the roof. It's incredible inside and out.
Posted by Anonymous | February 14, 2007 11:58 AM
Posted on February 14, 2007 11:58