2012-05-01
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photo 22:23:27
Buckminster Fuller’s design for a geodesic dome to cover the Brooklyn Dodgers stadium, via Mathias Crawford (here quoting Progressive Architecture):
Those jaunty wearers of the World Series crown may also sport a geodesic dome when they play ball in Brooklyn. Research into design of a quarter-sphere dome 750 feet in diameter and high enough at center field to top a 30-story office building (as shown in schematic section, containing Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s Lever House) has been started here by R. Buckminster Fuller, inventor and patent holder of Geodesic Structures, aided by a team of 25 graduate students in the Princeton School of Architecture.
