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The Pantheon in Rome, built in the 2nd century, was the largest dome in the world for over a millennium, and is still the largest unreinforced solid concrete dome. The dome of Florence Cathedral was the largest in the world from its construction in 1436 to 1871, and is the largest brick and mortar dome.
A circular masonry dome can be built without supports, called centering, because each course of bricks is a horizontal arch that resists compression. In Florence, the octagonal inner dome was thick enough for an imaginary circle to be embedded in it at each level, a feature that would hold the dome up eventually, but could not hold the bricks ...
After his conquest of the city of Jerusalem, Saladin rebuilt the dome of the Al-Aqsa Mosque as it is today, as part of extensive restorations. [170] Ayyubid domes tended to be smooth, hemispherical or stilted forms with no external drum. [55] The largest preserved Ayyubid dome is that of the Matbakh al-'Ajami in Aleppo, resting on muqarnas ...
The Rotunde (German: [roˈtʊndə]) in Vienna's Leopoldstadt district was a building erected for the 1873 Vienna World's Fair (German: Weltausstellung 1873 Wien).The building was a partially covered circular wrought iron construction, 84.1 m (276 ft) tall, with a diameter of 107.83 m (353.8 ft).
Nero introduced the dome into Roman palace architecture in the 1st century and such rooms served as state banqueting halls, audience rooms, or throne rooms. The Pantheon's dome, the largest and most famous example, was built of concrete in the 2nd century and may have served as an audience hall for Hadrian.
Cologne Cathedral (German: Kölner Dom, pronounced [ˌkœlnɐ ˈdoːm] ⓘ, officially Hohe Domkirche Sankt Petrus, English: Cathedral Church of Saint Peter) is a cathedral in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia belonging to the Catholic Church.
It was designed by Branko Žeželj, using a pre-stressing system developed by him, and was the largest dome in the world until 1965. It remains the largest dome in Europe. [110] In the 1960s, Italian architect Dante Bini developed an inflatable formwork system using a nylon-reinforced neoprene spherical balloon. First, a concrete floor slab and ...
The dome contains the largest indoor desert and is the largest geodesic glazed dome in the world. [120] Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Blue Mosque) 43 m 43 m 23.5 m 24.5 m Istanbul Turkey: Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral: 41 m Buenos Aires Argentina: Royal Albert Hall ~41 m [121] ~41 m [121] ~45 m [121] ~48 m [121] ~48 m [121] 66.7 m 82.9 m London ...