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union tank car dome
from buckminster fuller posted in art and design by nevereatshreddedwheat
This site in Baton Rouge, Louisiana is the location of another early geodesic dome designed and constructed by Buckminster Fuller. The dome was used to cover a unique turntable-like system that the Union Tank Car Company had developed to service multiple railway cars. When it was completed in 1958, it was the world's largest clear-span (meaning no columns) structure until a larger geodesic dome was built to house Howard Hughes's Spruce Goose in Long Beach, California in 1982.
When railway cars increased in length from 50 feet to 60 feet in the 1960s, the cars would no longer fit, and the dome became obsolete. The rail yard, including the dome, was sold to Kansas City Southern Railway in 1990 and the dome remained vacant. In 2007, one year before the dome would be eligible for the National Register of Historic Places, Kansas City Southern had the building demolished.
Watch a documentary about the Union Tank Car Dome.
banksy’s naked man hanging from a window
from banksy posted in art and design by nevereatshreddedwheat
Banksy's 'naked man hanging from a window' can be viewed from Park Street in Banksy's home town of Bristol.
view full location details...one of buckminster fuller’s first geodesic domes
from buckminster fuller posted in art and design by nevereatshreddedwheat
In 1953, Buckminster Fuller was commissioned by the architect of the Nautilus Motor Inn in Woods Hole to design a building for the Inn's restaurant. The geodesic dome that Fuller constructed with the help of his students in 1954 is his oldest surviving geodesic dome and one of the first built for commercial use.
The Dome Restaurant closed in 2002, and as of 2008, there were plans for Fuller's grandnephew to oversee the restoration of the building.
eames house
from charles and ray eames posted in art and design by nevereatshreddedwheat
Charles and Ray Eames designed their house as part of the Case Study House Program for Arts & Architecture magazine. It was built in 1949 out of prefabricated materials in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles.
According to Ice Cube, 'they was doing mashup before mashups even existed.'
view full location details...office of charles and ray eames
from charles and ray eames posted in art and design by nevereatshreddedwheat
Charles and Ray Eames operated out of this renovated garage on 901 Washington Blvd (now known as 901 Abbot Kinney) from 1941 until Ray died in 1988. The office had very few permanent rooms. Walls could be moved to accommodate research or transform the space into a shooting stage.
The artifacts from their office are preserved at the Library of Congress. The building has been remodeled and is currently not open to the public.