The State House was constructed in three phases. The original Federal/Georgian building was designed by Charles Bulfinch and completed in 1798. In 1896, a renaissance revival Annex with yellow brick and marble features was added onto the back of...
MIT’s Main Group Buildings, dedicated in 1916, include Building 10 with its prominent limestone- and copper-clad Great Dome. SGH investigated leakage into the Barker Library below the Great Dome and developed a durable repair solution...
Balancing the need for more space with a commitment to keeping the growing collection on campus, the University of Chicago undertook constructing a new library building that connects to the existing Regenstein Library. The design takes advantage...
The salt processing dome, with an inside diameter of 173 ft and a dome peak of 65 ft, houses equipment for processing and packaging bulk rock salt for commercial sale. The shell structure was constructed in 1985 by placing a nominal 3-1/2 in. of...
The monumental dome on the New Hampshire State House is gilded in gold leaf. After regilding in the early 1990s, the gold leaf started discoloring. The state wanted to understand the cause of discoloration and identify any inherent problems prior...
On display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met) from May to September, the Costume Institute’s 2016 exhibit examined the balance of creating fashion both by hand and with new technology. To support the Manus x Machina exhibit, the...
Officially completed in 1903, the Kansas State Capitol is the impressive home to the state’s government offices. The building is topped with a striking copper dome over a central rotunda that joins four wings. As part of a major...
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...
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...
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...