With a theme of Creative America, the U.S. Pavilion at Expo ‘67 required a structure that would showcase the country’s innovation and design accomplishments. Conceived by R. Buckminster Fuller, the 250 ft dia. transparent bubble commanded...
With the advent of economical large spun cast mirrors, the Smithsonian Institution and the University of Arizona wished to convert the Multiple Mirror Telescope (MMT) to a telescope with a single 6.5 m dia. mirror to retain its position as one of...
Modeled after our nation’s capitol, the California state capitol building was built between 1860 and 1874. The building features a dome rising 210 ft above the street and a stately granite facade. As home to the executive and legislative branches...
Built in 1899 for the Oliver P. Posey family, the Doheny family occupied the home for nearly sixty years. The three-story mansion was designed by architects Theodore A. Eisen and Sumner P. Hunt with elements from the Gothic, Chateauesque,...
By: Peter Babaian, Carl Jay, Benjamin E. Markham, Gary Tondorf Dick
Fewer iconic buildings exist than the Great Dome on the campus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In the 1940s, MIT covered the oculus in the dome, dimming the beauty of the original design. More than 60 yrs later, MIT...
Abstract: An investigation of the stability of the roof of an 85-ft diameter cylindrical prestressed concrete wastewater treatment tank is presented. The roof of the tank is a very thick, shallow spherical dome. With a 1/16 rise to span ratio, 2...