"Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it."
- R. Buckminster Fuller
A handful of domes around the world could enclose St. Joseph Cathedral, the Qwest building and the Sheraton Sioux Falls - all under the same roof with room for walking paths around them.
But it costs hundreds of millions of dollars to construct such gargantuan structures - $1.2 billion for one of the largest, in Greenwich, England.
Arizona State University is demolishing a former bank building at Rural Road and Apache Boulevard, to the dismay of historic preservationists who had urged the university to preserve the structure because of its unusual architecture.
ASU officials said they will preserve the geodesic-dome roof of the building, its most interesting architectural feature, and reuse it for another purpose. However, details of how the dome will be reused have not been determined.
Lynsey Green, left, and Rachel Girardi, both 11 and from Rockwood, were just two of about 40 Girl Guides who attended a Women in Science and Engineering outreach event at the University of Guelph on Saturday.
The fuel crisis that faced the United States in the 1970's caused many greenhouse owners to make structural changes to tighten their greenhouses to reduce heating costs and energy usage. Research efforts have developed new methods such as double covers, thermal blankets, blown in bead insulation and wall insulation to reduce heat loss. Many of these developments have been adopted by growers. Although energy has again become relatively inexpensive and plentiful, there is still need for most greenhouse operators to save energy and reduce this portion of production costs. The purpose for this publication is to encourage energy savings. An understanding of the basic methods of heat transfer will be helpful to successful energy conservation.
A Vancouver theatre company is creating a production that will be staged on ice inside a snow-covered dome.
The Only Animal Theatre Society is known for its site-specific productions, set in daring locations such as parks, under bridges and even in bodies of water.
The saying "A man's home is his castle" is true for Tina Gerard and Wes Dehnke — the couple lives in one. But their rural River Falls, Wis., home has an unusual shape. It's a geodesic dome with two castle towers.
"You get a dome and it looks like a bullet coming out of the ground, so we added stuff," says Gerard.
Donna Geller is building the home she has wanted for a long time, and you can’t miss it.
Geller is building a geodesic dome that will cover her entire house. Once completed, it will give her extra room at a lower cost than traditional remodeling, she said, and it will lower her energy costs substantially. Geller has wanted to build the dome since she moved to Enid in 1988 and bought her house at 1301 N. Oakwood. But, every builder and real estate person she talked to laughed at her, she said.
In many neighborhoods, one house looks pretty much like another house. But in every neighborhood, there's usually at least one house that breaks the cookie-cutter mold--an off-beat house that makes you wonder, "What are they thinking?"Advertisement
It was one of those off-beat, one-of-a-kind houses right here in West Knoxville that last week captured the attention of the HGTV show "What's With That House."
The University of Florida won't issue a license plate honoring its national championship, but that's not stopping one UF trustee from boasting about the Gators' gridiron successes on his bumper.
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