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  2. Dome Sweet Dome - AOL

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    In 1954, Buckminster Fuller received the U.S. patent for the geodesic dome, a hemi-spherical structure built on a frame of interlocking polygons. (Picture living inside of a giant soccer ball, and ...

  3. Geodesic dome - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Buckminster Fuller - Wikipedia

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    Fuller began working with architect Shoji Sadao [33] in 1954, together designing a hypothetical Dome over Manhattan in 1960, and in 1964 they co-founded the architectural firm Fuller & Sadao Inc., whose first project was to design the large geodesic dome for the U.S. Pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal. [33] This building is now the "Montreal ...

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  6. R. Buckminster Fuller and Anne Hewlett Dome Home - Wikipedia

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    The house, inhabited by Fuller while he taught at Southern Illinois University, was the only geodesic dome Fuller lived in, as well as the only property he ever owned. Fuller, a prolific architect and engineer, popularized the geodesic dome as a building design, and his house was one of the first geodesic dome residences to be constructed.

  7. A rare geodesic dome home for sale near Adel is ready to ...

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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

  8. Dome - Wikipedia

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    Geodesic dome (Montreal Biosphere, Canada) Geodesic domes are the upper portion of geodesic spheres. They are composed of a framework of triangles in a polyhedron pattern. [74] The structures are named for geodesics and are based upon geometric shapes such as icosahedrons, octahedrons or tetrahedrons.

  9. ASM Headquarters and Geodesic Dome - Wikipedia

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    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.

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