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wood river dome
from buckminster fuller posted in art and design by nevereatshreddedwheat
Here is a photo of the wood river dome.
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from batman forever, virtuosity posted in movies by nevereatshreddedwheat
The Spruce Goose Dome in Long Beach, CA was designed by Don Richter, a longtime associate of Buckminster Fuller, as a hangar for Howard Hughes' wooden aircraft the H-4 Hercules (a.k.a the "Spruce Goose"). Built in 1983, the dome is still one of the ten largest geodesic domes in the world.
The Spruce Goose was moved to a museum in Oregon in 1992. Warner Bros. now uses the dome as a sound stage. The Bat Cave in 1995's Batman Forever was built inside the dome. Other unforgettable classics filmed here include Virtuosity, Jack Frost and the remake of the Haunting.
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from buckminster fuller posted in art and design by nevereatshreddedwheat
Buckminster Fuller designed this three-quarters sphere geodesic dome for the United States Pavilion at the Montreal World's Fair, Expo '67. The building was restored in the early '90s and now houses the environmental science museum Biosphère.
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from buckminster fuller posted in art and design by nevereatshreddedwheat
Located in Wood River, IL outside of St. Louis, this is the second geodesic dome designed by Buckminster Fuller and built by the Union Tank Car Company after the success of the first Union Tank Car Dome in Baton Rouge, LA. Ownership of the dome has changed several times since it was completed in 1964, but as of 2011, it was still being used for rail car repair.
fuller dome home
from buckminster fuller posted in art and design by nevereatshreddedwheat
While Buckminster Fuller was teaching at Southern Illinois University Carbondale from 1959 to 1970 he lived in this thirty-nine foot white plywood dome on the corner of South Forest Street and West Cherry Street, the only geodesic dome that he ever lived in and owned. It is currently (as of 2012) undergoing a complete restoration.