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 ).

At the beginning of the Hippodrome I saw the Kaiser's Fountain, an ugly octagonal building with a glass dome, built in 1895 by the German Emperor, and on my left, directly across from it, the tomb of Sultan Ahmet, who constructed the Blue Mosque, more properly known by his name.

The first stanza of the poem describes Khan's pleasure dome built alongside a sacred river fed by a powerful fountain.

US Senate chamber ( photo circa 1873 ) When the Capitol's new dome was finally completed, its massive visual weight, in turn, overpowered the proportions of the columns of the East Portico, built in 1828.

* The first dome was built by the Romans

* The dome in Ravenna is built by the entire population of the city.

In the middle of this stands a dome of stone, built in Islamic times, over the sepulchre of Abraham.

* The oldest surviving bell in the clocks atop the dome of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is built.

The current nave of the church is partially built over the old 11th century church, of which only a dome and the underlying structure remain, in today's altar area.

He remarks that the temple of Vesta was the only ancient temple in Rome to be built in a round shape and covered with a dome to protect the sacred fire from rain, other temples being quadrangular.

The cathedral had been built for 36 years under his direction, and the only disappointment he had about his masterpiece was the dome: against his wishes the commission engaged Thornhill to paint the inner dome in false perspective and finally authorized a balustrade around the proof line.

The outermost dome is built of stone bound together with iron cramps and covered with lead sheathing, rather than of carpentry construction, as was the common French practice of the period.

In 691 an octagonal Islamic building topped by a dome was built by the Caliph Abd al-Malik around the rock, for a myriad of political, dynastic and religious reasons, built on local and Koranic traditions articulating the site's holiness, a process in which textual and architectural narratives reinforced one another.

File: EastonNestonfromVitruviusBritannicus edited. jpg | Easton Neston House ( c. 1695-1710 ), Northamptonshire, only the central block minus the dome was actually built

When the building was designed in the previous century, no one had any idea about how such a dome was to be built, given that it was to be even larger than the Pantheon's dome in Rome and that no dome of that size had been built since antiquity.

Because buttresses were forbidden by the city fathers, and clearly was impossible to obtain rafters for scaffolding long and strong enough ( and in sufficient quantity ) for the task, it was unclear how a dome of that size could be built, or just avoid collapse.

The dome, the lantern ( built 1446 – ca. 1461 ) and the exedra ( built 1439-1445 ) would occupy most of Brunelleschi ’ s life.

Douglas Trumbull, director of the 1972 science fiction classic film Silent Running, stated that the geodesic domes on the spaceship Valley Forge were based on the Missouri Botanical Garden's Climatron dome.

Construction of the building and dome, undertaken by the Australian companies Leighton Constructions and Evans-Deakin Industries respectively, began in late-1970 and was completed by the end of 1972.

According to Benjamin Horace Weese, Bandel personally saved the deteriorating Guastavino tile dome at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine by New York City in 1972 by recommending that its supporting granite piers be insulated.

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.

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