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2. Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory - Wikipedia

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   Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory (Mitchell Park Domes or The Domes) is a conservatory located at Mitchell Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. It is owned and operated by the Milwaukee County Park System, and replaced the original Milwaukee Conservatory which stood from 1898 to 1955. The three domes display a large variety of ...

3. Snow globe - Wikipedia

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   A snow globe with a figurine of Santa Claus Video of a snow globe. Motive: Vienna. A snow globe (also called a waterglobe, snowstorm, [1] or snowdome) is a transparent sphere, traditionally made of glass, enclosing a miniaturized scene of some sort, often together with a model of a town, neighborhood, landscape or figure.

4. Glass Pavilion - Wikipedia

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   The frieze of the Glass Pavilion was written with aphoristic poems of glass done by the anarcho-socialist writer Paul Scheerbart. [2] Examples of these were "Colored glass destroys hatred" and "Without a glass palace, life is a conviction". [2] Scheerbart's ideas also inspired the ritualistic composition of the interior.

5. History of modern period domes - Wikipedia

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   "Grid-domes", using a structural grid of roughly orthogonal members adjusted to create a double-curved surface, were employed in 1989 to create a double-glazed glass dome over an indoor swimming pool in Neckarsulm, Germany, and a single-glazed glass dome over the courtyard of the Museum for Hamburg History in Hamburg, Germany. [122]

6. History of medieval Arabic and Western European domes

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   Examples include the Asadiyya Madrasa at Ibb (built before 1258), which also has domes at the corners of the forecourt arcades, and the Mudhaffar Mosque at Taʿizz (1249-1295), which has a domed central bay flanked on either side by paired smaller domes and another large dome. The tower is also topped by a small dome.

7. Dome - Wikipedia

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   The word "cupola" is another word for "dome", and is usually used for a small dome upon a roof or turret. [9] "Cupola" has also been used to describe the inner side of a dome. [10] [ab] The top of a dome is the "crown". The inner side of a dome is called the "intrados" and the outer side is called the "extrados". [11]