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A $479,000 house for sale close to Adel is a rare example of a residential property built around a very unusual geodesic dome. Where: 28534 Prospect Ave., Adel Asking price: $479,000
The three-bedroom house spans 3,000 square feet on over an acre of land with a picturesque creek running from one end of the property to the other.
The geodesic dome was designed by Thomas C. Howard, the owner of Synergetics, Inc., in Raleigh, North Carolina. Thomas C. Howard designed many other geodesic domes, such as Climatron Conservatory at Missouri Botanical Gardens, the Union Tank Car Company dome (now demolished) in Baton Rouge, LA, and Poliedro de Caracas in Venezuela.
Geodesic dome: 1983 – 1991 162 530 Tacoma Dome: Tacoma, United States Merit Co. Geodesic dome: since 1991 163.4 536 Superior Dome: Marquette, United States State of Michigan/Northern Michigan University: Geodesic dome: Cast iron: 1811 – 1881 39.0 128.0 Bourse de commerce (previously the Halle aux blés) Paris, France First French Empire
A geodesic dome is a hemispherical thin-shell structure (lattice-shell) based on a geodesic polyhedron. The rigid triangular elements of the dome distribute stress throughout the structure, making geodesic domes able to withstand very heavy loads for their size.
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The Climatron is a greenhouse enclosed in a geodesic dome that is part of the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis. Initiated by then Garden director Frits W. Went, the dome is the world's first completely air-conditioned greenhouse and the first geodesic dome to be enclosed in rigid Plexiglass (Perspex) panels.
Stepan Center is a multi-purpose geodesic dome built in 1962 at the University of Notre Dame, and is located on the northeast corner of campus. The $350,000 to build Stepan Center was donated to the university by Alfred Stepan, the founder of Stepan Company , and his wife, Mary Louise. [ 1 ]
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