Word: domes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alumni group is considering offering to finance construction of a track with a plastic dome to replace Briggs Cage...
Nelson said a possible location for the track is the site of the present freshman track, but added that this decision as well as all the other details needs considerable study. He said the building might cost as little as $100,000. A plastic dome is far cheaper than a steel and brick construction, he said...
...passed the 1,000,000 mark. The building commit tee decided to keep the circular concept, but to change the facade. As New Mexicans dedicated the $5.2 million structure last week, they found that the U.S.'s newest state capitol had a little bit of everything except a dome...
Tallest structure in the overall picture below is the $9,300,000 U.S. pavilion, Buckminster Fuller's 187-ft. geodesic dome. In front of it, across an arm of the St. Lawrence, the Russians are lavishing $15 million on a vast exhibition hall roofed with a wing curved as if for takeoff. All exhibitors chipped in $45 million for the hexagon-sided theme pavilions ("Man and His World") at left on the far island. For the combination of an inverted-step pyramid and a truncated pylon in the picture at left, Great Britain is ignoring austerity to invest...
...Instead, the trustees of the diocese have approved a more modest program for completion submitted by the firm of Adams & Woodbridge. In place of the spire-topped 500-ft. Gothic tower that Cram envisioned at the crossing point of nave and transepts, the new design recommends a dome made of concrete louvers alternating with panels of colored glass. The transepts have been modernized in the new plans, and will be made from granite-faced concrete rather than from expensive cut stone...