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Gault Aviation Hangar

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1961, Joe L. Williams; Wallace R. Wilkerson, engineer. Corpus Christi Airport at 1000 International Blvd.
  • (Photograph by Gerald Moorhead )
  • (HABS/HAER)

This is one of the original light aircraft storage facilities for the new airport complex. A distinctive, if not eccentric, example of thin shell concrete construction, the large, post-tensioned, rib-vaulted hangar is flanked at its sides by twelve pointed hyperbolic paraboloids placed at equally spaced intervals to provide stability and to give a new, aerodynamic meaning to the term “flying buttress.”

At the center of the airport complex, the Hayden W. Head Terminal Building (2002), designed by Arthur M. Gensler and Associates with a set of S-curved roofs, replaced the earlier terminal executed in 1960 in concrete folded-plate construction.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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Data

Timeline

  • 1961

    Built

  • 2002

    Replaced

What's Nearby

Del Mar College Health Sciences and Emerging Technologies Complex
Corpus Christi Electric Company (Lew Williams Chevrolet Dealership)
Old St. Anthony's Catholic Church
Galván Ballroom
Wynn Seale Academy of Fine Arts (Wynn Seale Junior High School)

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Gault Aviation Hangar", [Corpus Christi, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-01-CC43.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of Texas

Buildings of Texas: Central, South, and Gulf Coast, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013, 250-250.

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