Kresge Auditorium at MIT

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Kresge Auditorium at MIT is a landmark modernist performance hall on the MIT campus, renowned for its distinctive thin-shell concrete dome and innovative architectural design.

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  • Kresge Auditorium ×1
  • Kresge Auditorium, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts ×1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf MIT campus building
auditorium
modernist building
performance hall
architect Eero Saarinen
architecturalStyle International Style
Modernist architecture
campusArea MIT main campus
campusQuadrant west side of MIT campus
constructionStartDate early 1950s
country United States
donor Kresge Foundation
function concert venue
lecture hall
performance space
hasFeature backstage facilities
lobby space
main auditorium
stage
hasRenovation major renovation in the 2010s
landmarkStatus architectural landmark of MIT
locatedIn Cambridge, Massachusetts
Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus
material reinforced concrete
namedAfter Sebastian S. Kresge
nearbyBuilding MIT Chapel
MIT Student Center
notableFeature large glass curtain walls
triangular plan footprint
unsupported thin-shell concrete roof
openingDate 1955
owner Massachusetts Institute of Technology
partOf Kresge Oval ensemble
planType fan-shaped plan
primaryUse campus-wide events
public performances
recognizedFor innovative structural engineering
modernist architectural design
roofType thin-shell concrete dome
seatingCapacity approximately 1200
shape spherical segment dome
structuralSystem thin-shell structure
usedFor MIT concerts
MIT lectures
ceremonies
conferences

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Eero Saarinen ("Kresge Auditorium, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts")
Wallace Harrison
designed
Eero Saarinen ("Kresge Auditorium")
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