Evoluon

The Evoluon is a discus-shaped constructing in the Dutch city of Eindhoven, designed through architects Louis Kalff and Leo de Bever. The futuristic dome-like dome measures seventy seven meters in diameter and the concrete of the dome is held in region by means of 169 kilometers of tension cable. The constructing is used for exhibitions and as a conference and occasion center. It turned into precise as a national monument in 2018.

The Evoluon become constructed as a signboard for technological development and specially those factors thereof wherein the originally Eindhoven-based corporation Philips turned into worried. The building turned into' offered 'to the city of Eindhoven in 1966 on the occasion of Philips' 75th anniversary. The constructing became used as an educational generation museum from 1966 to 1989, attracting big numbers of traffic in the second third of the 60s and 70s and turned into additionally a part of an NS day trip. This turned into partially due to the fact the site visitors had been allowed to test themselves and have been capable of operate demonstration models. That turned into then new and especially attractive for students and other young people.