​West Gymnasium is one of 6 buildings that Yamasaki & Associates contributed to Carleton’s campus between 1958-1966. A dramatic domed roof encloses basketball and swimming facilities; a strip of clerestory windows float the parabolic domes, made of poured concrete, above the facility walls. The design of West Gymnasium echoes and advances the uses of complex vaulting that Yamasaki first experimented with in the design of Lambert-St.Louis International Airport, in 1955.

​West Gymnasium is one of 6 buildings that Yamasaki & Associates contributed to Carleton’s campus between 1958-1966. A dramatic domed roof encloses basketball and swimming facilities; a strip of clerestory windows float the parabolic domes, made of poured concrete, above the facility walls. The design of West Gymnasium echoes and advances the uses of complex vaulting that Yamasaki first experimented with in the design of Lambert-St.Louis International Airport, in 1955.

​West Gymnasium is one of 6 buildings that Yamasaki & Associates contributed to Carleton’s campus between 1958-1966. A dramatic domed roof encloses basketball and swimming facilities; a strip of clerestory windows float the parabolic domes, made of poured concrete, above the facility walls. The design of West Gymnasium echoes and advances the uses of complex vaulting that Yamasaki first experimented with in the design of Lambert-St.Louis International Airport, in 1955.