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Arkansas museum acquires 'giant Wiffle ball' style glass dome . Fly’s Eye to join Wright home at Crystal Bridges in ’17. December 30, 2016 at 5:45 a.m. | Updated December 30, 2016 at 2:44 a.m.
It began in 1993 as a utopian vision: to end homelessness in downtown Los Angeles by welcoming the down-and-out into a small urban community of 18 fiberglass domes. But the dream, founded in an ...
That year, Ko discovered InterShelter Inc., a company in Alaska that makes fiberglass domes for medical missions and refugee camps and thought it would be a good fit for Hawaii.. The construction ...
Dome Village, the experiment in alternative housing for the homeless, may have held its last Christmas party Saturday at the downtown Los Angeles site near the Harbor Freeway that it has occupied ...
I've recently been informed of something awesome: The Integratron. It's a big wood-and-fiberglass dome in the Mojave Desert, built by UFO contactee George Van Tassel upon the instructions of ...
The fiberglass dome is about 26 feet in diameter, weighs around a ton, and houses a large antenna dish. It was placed atop the Green Building, MIT’s tallest structure, in 1966 to help study the ...
Vintage Minnesota: The 2010 Dome collapse After a fierce winter storm dumped 17 inches of snow, three sections of the Teflon-coated fiberglass roof tore. By Connie Nelson ...
On Friday, a crane lifted the fiberglass dome and placed it onto its circular base, constructed by members of the Shoreline Amateur Astronomical Association.
Astro Haven Enterprises uses closed-mold vacuum infusion to create its 18-foot-diameter (5.5 meters) five-shutter fiberglass clamshell dome. The design maximizes the height between the base and ...
The 50-foot-wide Fly's Eye Dome, made of glass and fiberglass, will appear on the museum's north lawn like a massive golf ball caught in the grass. "It is shocking and people are going to go, ...
BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas museum that moved a Frank Lloyd Wright home onto its grounds will add one of Buckminster Fuller's geodesic domes next summer.