One of the most beautiful buildings in Istanbul, it was constructed in the early years of the Seventeenth Century, with a huge central dome, two half domes that seem to cascade down from it, and smaller full domes around the gallery.

The courthouse was a white-stucco building minus the customary dome.

The building was again remodeled by British architect Norman Foster in the 1990s and features a glass dome over the session area, which allows free public access to the parliamentary proceedings and magnificent views of the city.

Although the geodesic dome had been created some 30 years earlier by Dr. Walther Bauersfeld, Fuller was awarded United States patents.

His first " continuous tension – discontinuous compression " geodesic dome ( full sphere in this case ) was constructed at the University of Oregon Architecture School in 1959 with the help of students.

" Later in his SIU tenure, Fuller was also a visiting professor at SIU Edwardsville, where he designed the dome for the campus Religious Center.

In 1846 Robert Smirke was replaced as the Museum's architect by his brother Sydney Smirke, whose major addition was the Round Reading Room 1854 – 1857 ; at in diameter it was then the second widest dome in the world, the Pantheon in Rome being slightly wider.

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.

This was the great cathedral of the Orthodox Church, whose dome was said to be held aloft by God alone, and which was directly connected to the palace so that the imperial family could attend services without passing through the streets.

A " sold " banner was hung on front of the MIT dome building and a " Welcome to Caltech East: School of the Humanities " banner over the Massachusetts Avenue Entrance.

The dome of the rotunda was completed by the end of the 4th century.

The current dome dates from 1870, although it was restored during 1994 – 1997, as part of extensive modern renovations to the church, which have been ongoing since 1959.

The stadium was famous for its hole-in-the-roof dome.

Buckminsterfullerene ( C < sub > 60 </ sub >) was named after Richard Buckminster Fuller, a noted architectural modeler who popularized the geodesic dome.

Since buckminsterfullerenes have a shape similar to that sort of dome, the name was thought appropriate.

The dome, with a diameter of was the largest in the world when built and used an ingenious bearing device: rather than running on wheels or rollers, it was supported by a ring-shaped hollow girder floating in a circular trough containing a solution of magnesium chloride in water.

The dome of the main city, the Time Lord capital, the Capitol, was shattered and dozens of Dalek saucers were crashed on the plains below.

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.

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 ).

After all the adaptations were made and the construction was completed, the dome successfully opened on January 7, 1922, with a production of Parsifal.

The prominent roof-lines of the palace and especially its squared central dome were influential prototypes in the Second Empire style adopted for hotels and commercial buildings as well as residences in the United Kingdom and North America.

A neo-baroque design was approved, with a central dome added at the last minute before the final plans were adopted in time for the start of building work in March 1903.

Sunlight adopted the style of a Turkish mosque, complete with dome and minaret though interpreted in a modernist, it has even been said cubist, idiom.

When the Falcons started playing in a dome, the team switched to their dark uniforms for home games but have worn their white uniforms at home a few times since switching to the dome.

* Designs for a geodesic dome version of an Autonomous House can be found at reality. sculptors. com

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.

In 1886 Eiffel also designed the dome for the Astronomical Observatory in Nice.

Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles originally planned on a main hall of the Hagia Sophia that measured 230 feet by 250 feet, making it the largest church in Constantinople, but the original dome was nearly 20 feet lower than it was constructed, “ Justinian suppressed these riots and took the opportunity of marking his victory by erecting in 532-7 the new Hagia Sophia, one of the largest, most lavish, and most expensive buildings of all time .” Although Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles were not formally educated in architecture, they were scientists that could organize the logistics of drawing thousands of laborers and unprecedented loads of rare raw materials from around the Roman Empire to create the Hagia Sophia for Emperor Justinian I.

This new cathedral, with its magnificent dome filled with mosaics, remained the centre of eastern Christianity for centuries.

Unlike " dome switch " keyboards, the pattern consists of two D-shaped capacitor pads for each switch, printed on a printed circuit board ( PC board ) and covered by a thin, insulating film of soldermask which plays the role of a dielectric.

This structure may have been the inspiration for Coleridge ’ s “ pleasure dome .”

* The annual prize for the best Politics student in Liverpool Hope University in the UK is called the Minerva Prize, both because of the association with wisdom and knowledge and because there is a statue of Minerva on the dome of Liverpool Town Hall, the seat of local politics in the city.

They lacked, for example, the ubiquitous Islamic dome which did not appear in Indonesia until the 19th century, but had tall timber, multi-level roofs not too dissimilar to the pagodas of Balinese Hindu temples still common today.

On 7 December 2007, Michelangelo's red chalk sketch for the dome of St Peter's Basilica, his last before his death in 1564, was discovered in the Vatican archives.

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.

The synod also proposed the adoption of an astronomical rule for Easter: Easter was to be the Sunday after the midnight-to-midnight day at the meridian of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem ( 35 ° 13 ' 47. 2 " E or UT + 22055 for the small dome ) during which the first full moon after the vernal equinox occurs.

An astronomical rule for Easter was proposed by the 1923 synod that also proposed the Revised Julian calendar: Easter was to be the Sunday after the midnight-to-midnight day at the meridian of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem ( 35 ° 13 ' 47. 2 " E or UT + 2 < sup > h </ sup > 20 < sup > m </ sup > 55 < sup > s </ sup > for the small dome ) during which the first full moon after the vernal equinox occurs.

Because construction on the dome was not yet finished, the game had to be moved to Tulane Stadium, home field for Tulane University.

The weight of the cast iron for the dome has been published as 8, 909, 200 pounds ( 4, 041, 100 kg ).

The Capitol building is marked by its central dome above a rotunda and two wings, one for each chamber of Congress: the north wing is the Senate chamber and the south wing is the House of Representatives chamber.

He is responsible for the painting of The Apotheosis of Washington beneath the top of the dome, and also the famous Frieze of United States History.