Couple's dream home will have a dome
By Joel Stottrup
Some people might associate dome homes with the so- called “hippie” era, that period in the late 1960s and early ’70s when “flower children,” “peace and love” and war protests were the signs of the times.
But Joel and Debi Minks, owners of the dome home going up since May on a wooded hillside about six miles north of Princeton, don’t live a hippie lifestyle at all.
Qatar's ASPIRE unveils world's largest indoor sports dome
ASPIRE, the Academy for Sports Excellence in Doha, has revealed to the world for the first time the scale and scope of its new sports dome, the largest indoor facility of its kind in the world.
Raise the reef
By Stan de la Cruz
DEEP were their thoughts once upon a drinking session. Bottoms up, two expatriates -- both scuba divers -- agreed about the lamentable state of local coral reefs and its lack of protection. Ideas flowed, and the Sarangani reef dome project was born.
Anyone Home?
by James Trainor
One summer night in 1947 the science fiction writer Ray Bradbury and a friend decided to take an after-dinner walk down Wilshire Boulevard. Even then, just two years after the end of World War II, Los Angeles was in the expansionist thrall of the automobile. The idea of two men strolling, not driving, down the Miracle Mile was already seen as somehow deviant, anti-social, potentially criminal. Within minutes a police patrol car came up alongside the two suspects, who were questioned at length just for attempting the Old World social activity of flâneurie.
DOMED CITY: Atlanta congregation adding six activity centers.
By Greg Garrison
RELIGION NEWS SERVICE
This city may not have the downtown sports dome that has been proposed for years, but domes keep rising at Faith Chapel Christian Center.
Okla. Main Street Center Moves into Landmark Gold Dome
Once targeted for demolition, Oklahoma City's "gold dome" bank, one of the first geodesic domes built in the United States and an icon on historic Route 66, has returned to productive use. In May, the Oklahoma Main Street Center moved into the now-rehabilitated building, which is nearly full of tenants.
Fortresses to weather the storm
NEW YORK On the Gulf of Mexico Coast in Texas, Jim Hayes is building houses on concrete stilts that he says will shrug off winds of more than 130 miles an hour and easily survive the worst hurricane flooding. Near Orlando, Florida, modest but striking cottages are being built with safe rooms and storm shutters made of ballistic nylon. In the Florida Panhandle, Jason Comer is putting up a village of gleaming white mansions with eight-inch- thick concrete walls and heavy, ridged concrete roofs.
Kit homes filled a niche, historian/author says
In the early decades of the 20th century, Americans were desperate to own homes, says Paul Diebold, senior architectural historian in Indiana's Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology and author of "The History & Architecture of Meridian-Kessler."
Distribution Efficiency in Hydronic Systems
by John Siegenthaler
Looking back at the history of residential hydronic heating in North America over the last 25 years, one is amazed at the progress made in the area of thermal efficiency.
