Word: domes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, the world around the Yard will change dramatically that, according to Holland's predictions, include "a lot of glass" surrounding the Yard, possible in the form of a dome. "It's almost like we'll come here and look at it like a museum," he says...
...course, the world around the Yard willchange dramatically that, according to Holland'spredictions, include "a lot of glass" surroundingthe Yard, possibly in the form of a dome. "It'salmost like we'll come here and look at it like amuseum," he says...
...build a new one. The crown prince has given him the run of a tiny Tongan outrider island, which Gullichsen hopes to turn into a prototype sustainable environment. "I'm setting up an ecologically closed community," he says. "I'll have a wind generator, solar panels, a geodesic dome and hydroponics. I want to live off the grid but still be online--be connected to the global fabric but from a venue that is free from regulation and in harmony with the environment." It's no Pakistani bathroom, but the principle is pretty much the same...
...spend eternity in the U.K. Fayed, whose son Dodi died in the car crash that also killed Princess Diana, owns the London department store Harrods. Last week Fayed's spokesman said the Anglophile tycoon would like to have himself mummified after death, then have his coffin placed in a dome at the top of the store. The spokesman also said, hopefully in jest, that Fayed would like to have "a hundred clones of himself made so he can come back to haunt the British establishment." Apparently, you can take chagrin with...
...same kind of thinking occurs in Foster's unfinished project for the British Museum. When its library moved to massive new premises a mile away, it left behind one of the great English spaces: the 1857 Round Reading Room designed by Sydney Smirke, with its shallow dome, surrounded by a two-acre internal court. To demolish this masterpiece would have been unthinkable. It had to be preserved, and Foster's scheme for so doing entailed sweeping away the clutter of now obsolete bookstack buildings from around it and covering the court with a light glass-and-steel roof, thus creating...