By ALASTAIR GORDON | Published: January 11, 2007


Photograph courtesy of Bryce Harper | The New York Times

BRUCE NELKIN decided in the 10th grade that he would someday live in a geodesic dome, after seeing a picture of one in a science book. “It looked like something out of ‘Star Wars,’ ” Mr. Nelkin said. “I thought it was the coolest thing I’d ever seen, and I said to myself, ‘When I grow up I’m going to build one of those.’ ”


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Aluminum Geodesic Spheres

Specializes in aluminum geodesic domes and spheres and geodesic modeling kits. Has a 6' playdome.
Building types: Specialized ⋅ Market area: worldwide

2111 Southwest 31st Avenue
Pembroke Park, FL 33009
Contact: Edwin O'Toole: (954) 963 2341

Buckminster Fuller and his wife Anne's dome home in Illinois

RBF Dome NFP is a synergetic system of activities that we anticipate to be the most efficient way for our organization to assist in the effectuation of Fuller's challenge: to make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.


Our goals:

• To achieve recognition as a National Historic Landmark for the dome home in Carbondale, Illinois that was the home of Anne and Buckminster Fuller from 1960 until 1971.
• To increase awareness of Fuller's concepts and principles by creating a museum and information hub in the dome.
• To disseminate tools to youth that demonstrate Fuller's work to increase awareness of his ideas among the young minds that were the inspiration for his life's work.
• To demonstrate through our actions the paradigmatic opportunity for a sustainable, peaceful, utopian society for 100% of humanity that Fuller knew to be possible if we would nurture the cause of livingry and reject the call to weaponry.

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from PRWEB



A visual and musical event at Santa Monica Pier where the audience experiences the performance from inside the instrument.

Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica, California (PRWEB) November 11, 2005 -- The internationally renowned MASS Ensemble's large-scale instruments and kinetic performances have enthralled and delighted audiences throughout the U.S. and abroad. Now, the performance group that invented the world's largest stringed instrument has partnered with the prestigious experience design firm o2 creative solutions to create MASS MUSIC DOME, a completely immersive visual and musical performance event, in which the venue is the musical instrument.

Domes have been around for centuries. What makes geodesic domes different?



Efficiency. A sphere is already efficient: it encloses the most volume with the least surface. Thus, any dome that is a portion of a sphere has the least surface through which to lose heat or intercept potentially damaging winds.

A geodesic dome uses a pattern of self-bracing triangles in a pattern that gives maximum structural advantage, thus theoretically using the least material possible. (A "geodesic" line on a sphere is the shortest distance between any two points.)

Click on the image above to view Geodesic Domes in the Dome gallery

above: some of the World's 10 largest Domes

1. Fantasy Entertainment Complex - Kyosho Isle, Japan, 710 feet

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2. Multi-Purpose Arena - Nagoya, Japan, 614 feet

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Building A Dome Home
Book and/or CD-ROM compiled by a couple in Oregon who built a dome which includes all the stages, pitfalls, tips and tricks, and a 3-D animated construction of a dome.

Click here to check out the gallery of images from BFI's Fly's Eye Dome raising

Click on image above to view Domes at Burning Man