Yet these were the only architectural solutions known to work in such a vast structure. Could a dome weighing tens of thousands of tons stay up without them? Was there enough timber in Tuscany for ...
Florence Cathedral, also known as the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, is one of the most iconic landmarks in Italy and a ...
The complex, covering more than 20,000 m 2, is also the first Islamic building that adapted the four-courtyard layout of Sassanid palaces to Islamic religious architecture. Its double-shelled ribbed ...
A steel frame dome that once housed industry in Shanghai’s West Bund Cultural Corridor is now a thriving cultural center.
Millennium Dome architect Richard Rogers has died at ... Born in 1933 to an Anglo-Italian family in Florence, he trained at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London before ...
“A one-of-a-kind geodesic dome home on over an acre of lush, private property on Florida's Space Coast,” reads the listing by Laura Forman, RE/MAX Aerospace Realty. “This architectural ...