Ingalls Rink hockey stadium on Yale’s campus

Eero Saarinen completed the Ingalls Rink hockey stadium on Yale’s campus in 1958. It is affectionately known as the Yale Whale, because its curved roof evokes a humpback breaching the water. A critique in the December 1958 issue of Architectural Forum called it “one of the most surprising new buildings in the world,” and said the modernist architect had “shaped a structure loaded with personality.”A concrete arch supported by a cable net and later cable ties made for a marvel of engineering.