Word: domes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From the outside, the new home of Britain's National Theater looks like a concrete cubist fortress. Yet, looking out from its wide cantilevered terraces, one might be on the bridge of an ocean liner. Scanning the Thames from its South Bank, one sees the helmeted dome of St. Paul's to the right, and on the left, the smoothly scalloped arches of Waterloo Bridge. Within the building, the staggered lobby levels form spacious coves of unanticipated intimacy, soon to be thronged with hosts of theatergoers...
...enough to sustain three or four different ball games at once. Despite its lower % of males, the Quad placed fifth out of the eleven houses in the Strauss Cup race. With house-owned volleyball sets, 3 weight-room, four clay tennis courts soon to be enclosed in a dome, backboards, a basketball court across the street, and a planned building of squash courts, we get our exercise far from the exhaust fumes of Mt. Auburn St. and Storrow Drive...
...appears to make a profound statement about contrasts in underdeveloped countries, until one recalls the famous photo poster of the Sixties showing dilapidated shacks, broken streets, and ragged black children. In that case, however, the city was Northeast Washington D.C., and the structure in the background was the dome of the Capitol...
...about the San Andreas fault, 45 miles inland, and the Rinconada fault, some 20 miles away. So its engineers designed the plant to survive a quake registering 6.75 on the Richter scale.* The concrete foundations are 14 ft. thick, for example, and a cross section of the mammoth dome over each reactor would show 3½ ft. of concrete, liberally laced with steel reinforcing rods...
Inside a 52-ft.-high aluminum geodesic dome, which acts as a buffer against the drifting snow, are three prefabricated buildings resembling large mobile homes. They contain sleeping facilities for 40 people, a communications center (including a ham radio shack for contacts with home), a dining hall and kitchen, a small gym and library, a photographic darkroom and several computer-equipped scientific laboratories. In Quonset-like buildings adjoining the dome are the base's power plant, biology lab, dispensary and garage. One of the huts also shelters an ingenious freshwater system that uses heat from the diesel generators...