Geodesic Domes Around the World Quazen

Geodesic Domes Around the World
Quazen

The human-interest site Quazen has rounded up different example of geodesic domes from around the world — full globes, half domes and Buckminster Fuller originals. We've pulled our favorites from their list and threw in some domes that we've previously featured on Apartment Therapy...

• 1 Montreal's Biosphere designed by Buckminster Fuller for the 1967 World's Fair.
• 2 Telusphere — Vancouver's Science World.
• 3 Spaceship Earth at Epcot Center in Walt Disney World, Orlando. (RIP Captain E-O)
• 4 The Matr Mandir globe is at the center of the Utopian experiment Auroville in India.
• 5 Eden Project domes in Cornwall, England.

Have you visited any of these geodesic domes and globes?

Check out more: Geodesic Magic: There’s No Place Like Dome.

Via: Quazen

(Images: Flickr members storem, kwl, daryl_mitchell, kennymatic, all licensed for use under Creative Commons: CC BY-SA 2.0)

MORE DOME HOMES
• Geodesic Domes: History & Sources
• Mt. Washington Hilltop Dome House
• Escapes: To The iDome!
• Green Ideas from Bucky Fuller's Biosphere

Comments (11)

Anyone else sort of creeped out by these things?

posted by 1GH on July 7th 2009 at 4:25pm
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Ahhh, I love Science World! The dome is the best part because it houses the IMAX!

posted by jellygrlfrnd on July 7th 2009 at 5:39pm
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I've been to the Biosphere quite a couple times, and there isn't much to do there. They turned it into an Environment Museum, which is pretty boring all year long, but once in a while they'll do something great.

I wish they had turned it into a Design Museum, that would've been awesome.

posted by stepanka on July 7th 2009 at 6:59pm
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The Missouri Botanical Garden's Climatron should be on your list.
How else would you put a tropical rain forest in St Louis?
Climatron Photos

posted by magdelane on July 7th 2009 at 8:23pm
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Thank you for calling it Science World instead of "Telusphere", jellygrlfrnd.

posted by KidMoe on July 7th 2009 at 9:27pm
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Ontario Place in Toronto on the lake.

posted by anaximander on July 7th 2009 at 11:32pm
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What about the Desert Dome at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha?
(yes, Nebraska)

http://www.omahazoo.com/index.php?p=animalsexhibits&s=desertdome

To paraphrase Magdelane - How else would you put a desert in Nebraska?

posted by clickchick on July 8th 2009 at 12:17am
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Payette High School in Payette, Idaho...9 stories high:

http://tinyurl.com/PayetteGeodesicDome

posted by AlmostAD on July 8th 2009 at 12:21am
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Ah yes, Spaceship Earth. Went there in May.

posted by Alaricus on July 8th 2009 at 2:40am
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I second the Biosphere being pretty boring.
But it's still a cool site.

And Spaceship Earth is amazing!

posted by HelloChloe on July 8th 2009 at 10:13am
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There is one near Cleveland Ohio in Russell Township. It's owned by ASM or American Society for Metals. It's slightly off the beaten path and I think quite beautiful.

posted by bcthree on July 11th 2009 at 8:22pm
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