As overthenet recently reminded us, this year is a significant one for the legacy of Buckminster Fuller, who popularised the geodesic dome and the term Spaceship Earth. A travelling retrospective exhibition resulted in a substantial feature in the November ArtForum, which also includes a piece on the Centre For Land Use Interpretation, an organisation we'll discuss on a later date.Fuller's Axiometric contructions result in ideal architecture for admiring from the fifth facade. So, predictably perhaps, based on Wikipedia's list, here are some of Bucky's biggest extent domes:
NAGOYA DOME, Japan
TACOMA DOME, Washington, USA
SUPERIOR DOME, Michigan, USA
WALKUP SKYDOME, Arizona, USA
POLIEDRO DE CARACAS, Venezuela
The former SPRUCE GOOSE HANGAR, California, USA
EDEN PROJECT, Cornwall, UK
Interesting to see another 20th C. visionary, Howard Hughes, had his Goose parked in a dome. According to a recent NZ Listener article, Chris Booth has plans to tunnel a subterranean land art project beneath the Eden Project.
Image: The Buckminster soccer ball, official ball of the FIFA Word Cup from 1970 - 2006.
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