The dome, in Thomas Maurice's description, in The History of Hindostan of the tradition, was related to nature worship as it reflects the shape of the universe.

A Liberty figure adorned most American coins of the time, and representations of Liberty appeared in popular and civic art, including Thomas Crawford's Statue of Freedom ( 1863 ) atop the dome of the United States Capitol Building.

The current dome and the House and Senate wings were designed by Thomas U. Walter and August Schoenborn, a German immigrant, and were completed under the supervision of Edward Clark.

* The present dome of the United States Capitol, designed by Thomas U. Walter, was inspired in part by the dome at Les Invalides.

The dome was successfully adopted for specialized uses, such as the 21 Distant Early Warning Line domes built in Canada in 1956, the 1958 Union Tank Car Company dome near Baton Rouge, Louisiana designed by Thomas C. Howard of Synergetics, Inc. and specialty buildings like the Kaiser Aluminum domes ( constructed in numerous locations across the US, e. g., Virginia Beach, VA ), auditoriums, weather observatories, and storage facilities.

The dome was introduced to a wider audience as a pavilion for the 1964 World's Fair in New York City designed by Thomas C. Howard of Synergetics, Inc.

The architect, Thomas U. Walter, designed a double dome interior based on that of the Panthéon in Paris.

Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, installed an octagonal dome above the West front of his plantation house, Monticello.

* Climatron ( 1960 ) and Reflecting Pools-the world's first geodesic dome greenhouse designed by architect and engineer Thomas C. Howard of Synergetics, Inc ; lowland rain forest with approximately 1500 plants.

The Statue of Freedom — also known as Armed Freedom or simply Freedom — is a bronze statue designed by Thomas Crawford that, since 1863, has crowned the dome of the U. S. Capitol in Washington, D. C.

A monumental statue for the top of the national Capitol appeared in architect Thomas U. Walter's original drawing for the new cast-iron dome, which was authorized in 1855.

Latrobe originally planned a masonry dome with a lantern on top, but his friend Thomas Jefferson suggested a wooden double-shell dome Twenty four skylights in the main dome were re-opened, and the stained glass windows ( installed in the 1940s ) were replaced with clear glass windows.

* Thomas Crawford ( posthumous ) – Statue of Freedom ( bronze for dome of United States Capitol )

This may have been done to imitate the increased height of the new Capitol dome in Washington designed by Thomas U. Walter which was being constructed during the same time.

Image: Statehouseflag. JPG | Thomas Silloway's dome is taller than Ammi B.

1870 stereograph view of the third state house showing Thomas Silloway's taller drum supported dome

The zoo's aviary is a geodesic dome designed by Thomas C. Howard of Synergetics, Inc. and used during the 1964 Fair.

** the dome of the Main Reading Room of the Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress

Around 1869, the builders discovered that they didn't have the technical knowledge to build the domed roof, meaning that Thomas Fairbairn Engineering Co. Ltd. of Manchester had to be contracted to provide a pre-fabricated dome within a few weeks ; this gave the Library of Parliament the distinction of being the first building in North America to have a state-of-the-art wrought iron roof.

For example, when MIT students surreptitiously put a fake police car atop the dome on MIT's Building 10, that was a hack in this sense, and the students involved were therefore hackers.

Building an igloo large enough for a camera to enter resulted in the dome collapsing, and when they finally succeeded in making the igloo it was too dark for photography.

As a Minnesota architect he was best known for his design of the state capitol dome and the downtown St. Paul Endicott Building.

Taps is played three times from the dome of the Academic Building: once to the north, south, and west.

File: Nationalgalleryoculus. jpg | Oculus of the West Building dome

Building made in Neo Renaissance style and rotunda shape was crowned with dome has been placed in Wiosny Ludów park.

Later artists have used the concept for motives ranging from genuine respect for the deceased ( Constantino Brumidi's fresco The Apotheosis of Washington on the dome of the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D. C .), to artistic comment ( Salvador Dalí's or Ingres's The Apotheosis of Homer ), to mock-heroic and burlesque apotheoses for comedic effect.

Bulfinch split his career between his native Boston and Washington, D. C., where he served as Commissioner of Public Building and built the intermediate United States Capitol rotunda and dome.

As Commissioner of Public Building, Bulfinch completed the Capitol's wings and central portion, designed the western approach and portico, and constructed the Capitol's original low wooden dome to his own design ( replaced by the present cast-iron dome completed in the mid-1860s ).

A large flag, 5. 5 metres by 11 metres, was unfurled and flown over the dome of the Royal Exhibition Building.

Lesser known projects by Pope's firm include Union Station, Richmond, Virginia ( 1917 ), with a central rotunda capped with a low saucer dome, now housing the Science Museum of Virginia ; Branch House ( 1917 – 1919 ), a Tudor-style mansion in Richmond, now housing the Virginia Center for Architecture ; the Baltimore Museum of Art ; and in Washington, D. C., the National City Christian Church, Constitution Hall, American Pharmacists Association Building, Ward Homestead, and the National Archives Building ( illustration, left ).

* Building shape: Spherical triodetic dome

The gold dome of the Sohmer Piano Building ( 1897 ) is a distinctive landmark of the Flatiron District

The United States Capitol dome as seen from the United States Supreme Court Building | Supreme Court Building

Next to the frontispiece, at one corner of the dome, rises the tower of the California Building which was echoed in the less permanent turrets of the Southern California counties, and the Science and Education Buildings.

View of Cannon Office Building from United States Capitol dome

One of the best examples is the Commerce Bank Building with its expansive glass dome, which soars three floors above the marble floors and the black granite tellers ' counter.

A further extension to the Container City Complex was the " Riverside Building " located next to the Thames facing The O < sub > 2 </ sub > dome.

The Port of Liverpool Building is designed in Edwardian Baroque style and is noted for the large dome that sits atop it, acting as the focal point of the building.

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.

* A statue of Minerva stands atop the dome of the Mitchell Library in Glasgow, Scotland.

Inspired by the prestigious British Museum reading room, the first iron dome in Canada was built in the early 1870s over the reading room of the Library of Parliament building in Ottawa.

In the dome of the reading room at the new Library of Congress, Edwin Blashfield's murals were on the given theme, The Progress of Civilization.

Lithograph depicting the original vision for the State Library complex, including the original Victorian reading room dome as part of the never-realised Russell Street annexe

Image: State Library from Melbourne Central, 19. 07. 06. jpg | The library from Melbourne Central, showing the whole roof, including the renowned dome, and the left-side street entry

The latter is low-rise to meet height restrictions on Swanston Street, intended to allow greater viewability of the dome of the State Library of Victoria.

He painted a set of murals for the municipal auditorium in Mobridge, South Dakota and a mural within the dome of the old Carnegie Library, now the Carnegie Resource Center, in Mitchell, South Dakota.

In Fall 2011, the Fine Arts Library was moved from the Sibley Hall dome to the top floor of Rand following a reorganization coinciding with the opening of adjacent Milstein Hall.

At the top of the Great Library is a large dome that appears to see a large forest like area below, with other Great Libraries in the distance ; there being one for every language.

Harris himself had been an assistant to Edwin Howland Blashfield during the painting of the dome of Library of Congress in Washington, D. C.

Other notable rooms in the State House include the rotunda ( beneath the dome ), the State Library ( north end ), and the State Room ( south end ).