In the second half of the Sixteenth Century, Sinan, the great architect who is the Michelangelo of the East, designed the massive buttresses that now help support the dome.

The dome of the church is, outside of St. Peter's, one of the largest in Rome.

The only means of interior light is the twenty-nine-foot-wide aperture in the stupendous dome.

If a circular building is aerodynamically smooth, and cooler than the ground, it can be passively cooled by the " dome effect.

" Many installations have reported that a reflective or light colored dome induces a local vertical heat driven vortex that sucks cooler overhead air downward into a dome if the dome is vented properly ( a single overhead vent, and peripheral vents ).

There is also a fountain ( şadırvan ) where worshipers can perform ritual ablutions before prayer ; the dome over the şadırvan is capped by a skylight which creates a soft, serene light below ; thus playing an important role in the illumination of the large building.

He also developed numerous inventions, mainly architectural designs, the best known of which is the geodesic dome.

The peak of Corcovado is a big granite dome, which describes a generally vertical rocky formation.

If volcanic activity continues, the centre of the caldera may be uplifted in the form of a resurgent dome such as is seen at Cerro Galán, Lake Toba, Yellowstone, and so on, by subsequent intrusion of magma.

The second, smaller dome sits directly over the centre of the transept crossing of the choir where the compas, an omphalos once thought to be the centre of the world ( associated to the site of the Crucifixion and the Resurrection ), is situated.

An alternative, Proto-Indo-European etymology comes through Potnia and Despoina ; where Des-represents a derivative of PIE * dem ( house, dome ), and Demeter is " mother of the house " ( from PIE * dems-méh₂tēr ).

On the east is the Elbląg Upland ( Wysoczyzna Elbląska ), a dome pushed up by glacial compression, 390 km < sup > 2 </ sup > in diameter and high at its greatest elevation.

Its concrete dome is in diameter and is held in place by of rebar.

One reason for this given by the researchers is that the B-80 is actually more like the original geodesic dome structure popularized by Buckminster Fuller, which uses triangles rather than hexagons.

San Carlino is remarkably small given its significance to Baroque architecture ; it has been noted that the whole building would fit into one of the dome piers of Saint Peter's .< ref >

The strings are gathered at the tail like an archtop guitar, but the top is formed from thin spruce ( like a flat-top or classical ) forced into a shallow dome.

The planet makes its first appearance in the revived series in " The Sound of Drums ", where the Citadel, enclosed in a glass dome ( as described by the Doctor in " Gridlock "), is seen in flashback as the Doctor describes it.

Pillars of marble and granite give way to staircases of Carrara marble, freestone, and alabaster, and a ceiling decorated in gold leaf is topped by a stained glass dome.

Although there is little surviving evidence of Irish culture, some elderly islanders can remember when the term " cilig " ( or killick ) was used to describe a common method of fishing for sea turtles by tricking them into swimming into prearranged nets ( this was dome by splashing a stone on a line-the cilig-into the water on the turtle's opposite side ).

The rubber dome switches, most commonly referred to as polydomes, are formed polyester domes where the inside bubble is coated in graphite.

Some people have reported a temperature differential as high as () between the inside of the dome and the outside.

Other areas damaged during World War II bombing included: in September 1940 two unexploded bombs hit the Edward VII galleries, the King's Library received a direct hit from a high explosive bomb, incendiaries fell on the dome of the Round Reading Room but did little damage ; on the night of 10 to 11 May 1941 several incendiaries fell on the south west corner of the Museum, destroying the book stack and 150, 000 books in the courtyard and the galleries around the top of the Great Staircase – this damage was not fully repaired until the early 1960s.

The Hagia Sophia architects innovatively combined the longitudinal structure of a Roman basilica and the central plan of a drum-supported dome, in order to withstand the high magnitude earthquakes of the Marmara Region, “ However, in May 558, little more than 20 years after the Church ’ s dedication, following the earthquakes of August 553 and December 557, parts of the central dome and its supporting structure system collapsed .” The Hagia Sophia was repeatedly cracked by earthquakes and was quickly repaired.

Some mounds, known as dome craters, can be as high as 0. 2-0. 3 m ( 8 – 12 in ) high.

It ended with the emplacement of a dacite dome several hundred feet (~ 200 m ) high at the volcano's summit, which filled and overtopped an explosion crater already at the summit.

The result is that the Cathedral reflects a hodgepodge of architectural styles, with a Gothic nave, a Romanesque crossing under the dome ; chapels in French, English and Spanish Gothic styles, as well as Norman and Byzantine ; Gothic choir stalls, and Roman arches and columns separating the high altar and ambulatory.

The central dome has an octagonal plan, stands 97 m high, and weighs some 20, 000 tons.

Local newspapers made a fuss when Gilbert sent to Georgia for marble, but the result, in which a hemispherical dome caps a high drum not unlike that of St. Peter's Basilica, crowning a building housing the bicameral legislature and the state supreme court, was so nobly handsome that West Virginia and Arkansas contracted for Gilbert capitols as well.

The dome above the transept is high supported by arches and squinches.

It has a cylindrical apse and a high dome emerging from a high tambour.

Eye-in-the-sky surveillance dome camera watching from a high steel pole

In 1562 Vasari built the octagonal dome atop the Basilica of Our Lady of Humility in Pistoia, an important example of high Renaissance architecture.

The high school's football stadium, The Round Valley Ensphere located in Eagar, is the eighth biggest geodesic dome in the world with a diameter of 440 feet / 134 m. The school board voted to give the Dome a pinkish looking color, and it was completed in 1992.

The center of the Sikh community is the Gurdwara Sahib of El Sobrante ( known for its large golden dome ) which sits high in the hills above San Pablo Dam Road.

A " View Tower " designed in 1760 – 84 feet high and 50 feet wide on five floors, surmounted by a saucer dome flanked by the smaller domes of flanking towers — would have been a small neoclassical palace itself.

The old high school has now been completely demolished, except the dome on top of the high school, which is now located as a monument outside of right center field of the baseball field.

The domes are lettered A, B, C, D and E. Dome A is the secondary dome, which has the junior and senior high.

Dome B is the administrative dome with the elementary and high school offices and media center.

An all-female Catholic college, the college sticks out in the downtown area due to the high spire of St. Joseph's church itself, and the rotunda and dome of the Monastery & College Sacred Heart Chapel.

Constructed of thick limestone blocks, it was intended to be three stories high, topped by a dome, with bell towers on either side.

The structure's walls consist of three components: an outer layer ( tilted inwards and made of many layers of stones whose size diminishes with height: mostly, lower layers consist of rubble masonry, while upper layers tend to ashlar masonry ) shaped like a tower, an inner layer, made of smaller stones ( to form a bullet shaped dome called " Tholos ": ashlar masonry is used here more frequently ), an intermediate layer of very small pieces and dirt, which makes the whole construction very sturdy: it stands only by virtue of the weight of its stones, which may each amount to several tons.

The original façade and parts of monastery are in Lombard Romanesque style, some chapels in International Gothic, while the rest of building, include the big dome, was rebuilt in Baroque and Neoclassic style, by the Sardinian architect Antonio Cano in 1829-34.

The dome vault at the center was constructed by laying bricks in a spiral, while the other chambers are barrel vaulted.

The dome rises to an elevation of and is sparsely covered in hoop pines, while the dry rainforest below contains ironbarks and bloodwoods.

The central dome over the crossing had pendentives and windows in its base, while the four domes over the arms of the cross had pendentives but no windows.

Slightly smaller in diameter than those of the Pantheon and Florence Cathedral, the inner dome is hemispherical, while the outer ribbed dome is vertically oval.

However, the Roman dome is supported by ranks of tapered Corinthian columns, with their extravagant capitals of acanthus leaves and their elaborately fluted shafts, while the dome at El Escorial, soaring nearly one hundred metres into the air, is supported by four heavy granite piers connected by simple Romanesque arches and decorated by simple Doric pilasters, plain, solid, and largely unprepossessing.

As Hiroshima was rebuilt around the dome, it became a subject of controversy — some locals wanted it torn down, while others wanted to preserve it as a memorial of the bombing.

A wooden form had held the Pantheon dome aloft while its concrete set, but for the height and breadth of the dome designed by Neri, starting above the floor and spanning 44 metres ( 144 ft ), there was not enough timber in Tuscany to build the scaffolding and forms.

In Florence, the octagonal inner dome was thick enough for an imaginary circle to be embedded in it at each level, a feature that would hold the dome up eventually, but could not hold the bricks in place while the mortar was still wet.

The windows in the aisles and in the transept depict saints from the Old and the New Testament, while the circular windows in the drum of the dome or above the entrance depict Christ and Mary.

Celer and Severus also created an ingenious mechanism, cranked by slaves, that made the ceiling underneath the dome revolve like the heavens, while perfume was sprayed and rose petals were dropped on the assembled diners.

It has noteworthy frescoes, made in the 14th-16th centuries by Camillo Procaccini and Ludovico Carracci, while those of the dome are by Morazzone and Guercino.

Employing the double dome, the recessed archway, white marble and parks while stressing on symmetry and detail was visible during the reign of Shah Jahan.

There are three mihrabs in each of the seven bays, while the large central mihrab is covered by a dome, it is decorated with white marble inlay, in geometric patterns.

The weight of the Roman concrete dome is concentrated on a ring of voussoirs in diameter that form the oculus, while the downward thrust of the dome is carried by eight barrel vaults in the thick drum wall into eight piers.

The large cross on the main dome ( which has a metal bird attached to it, perhaps symbolic of the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove ) had fallen during one of the shellings of the city while it housed the headquarters of the División Azul during World War II.

*-System to project into dome while maintaining illusion of being at the same point of view as the camera.

" Historian Steven E. Woodworth wrote, " Beneath the ponderous dome of his high forehead, the General would gaze goggle-eyed at those who spoke to him, reflecting long before answering and simultaneously rubbing both elbows all the while, leading one observer to quip that the great intelligence he was reputed to possess must be located in his elbows.

A leak was detected between the liquid oxygen dome and injector for the # 4 H-1 rocket engine ; while attempts were made to fix the problem, it was eventually decided to launch without replacing the engine.