Word: domes
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...soccer ball has been dubbed "Fullerene C-60" as a tribute to the architect's innovative dome design. The late R. Buckminster Fuller, an eminent architect who was twice forced to leave the College, created the geodesic dome--which resembles both a soccer ball and a carbon molecule in shape...
When St. Petersburg built the Suncoast Dome in 1987, it aimed to be the first Florida city to attract a major league baseball team. The recession didn't stanch enthusiasm for the project. As assistant city manager Rick Dodge notes, in what sounds like a bow to Clintonomics: "Cities that are coming out of the recession are cities investing in the future." But this brave leap seemed to be over a cliff. Three times the majors took St. Pete to the altar, and three times the town was jilted: first with the Chicago White Sox, then with a prospective expansion...
...Shirt available in the Astro-Arena adjacent to the dome...
From the eighth floor of the science center, members of a summer school class entitled Visu S177, "Lasers in Art, Design and Architecture" aimed a laser beam at the dome of Eliot House on both nights, and on Sunday they held a full-fledged show on the side of William James Hall...
These spherical, 60- and 70-atom carbon molecules are named after Buckminster Fuller, who popularized the geodesic dome they resemble. They've never been seen outside the lab -- until now. Geologists tracked down buckyballs in the wilds of Russia in an unusual, ancient, carbon-rich rock near the town of Shunga, close to the Finnish border...