Geodesic

Carnival Cruise Line Signs Agreement To Expand Terminal Operations At The Port Of Long Beach

Edit Stockhouse 17 Oct 2016

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Carnival Cruise Line Signs Agreement To Expand Terminal Operations At The Port Of Long Beach (Carnival Corporation & plc)

Edit Public Technologies 17 Oct 2016

(Source. Carnival Corporation & plc) Featured, News Blog, Press Releases ... The deal will nearly triple the size of Carnival's current terminal facility from approximately 66,000 square feet to 142,000 square feet. Carnival has operated the Long Beach Cruise Terminal since 2003 using a partial area of the Geodesic Dome that was the former museum housing Howard Hughes' 'Spruce Goose' attraction ... (noodl. 35852215) ....

Victoria Gate, Leeds review – shop and awe

Edit The Guardian 16 Oct 2016

Built to house a new John Lewis store, Leeds’s glittering Victoria Gate arcade draws on digital wizardry and the city’s rich textile past ... It is driven by the power and attraction of John Lewis ... It is wrapped in a grid of diamonds – a diagrid, to use an architectural term – which evokes the ultra-light geodesic structures beloved of the technophile American engineer Buckminster Fuller but realised here in archaising masonry ... Twitter ... ....

Everything You Need to Know About the Momentous Habitat III

Edit CityLab 15 Oct 2016

They’re gathering in Quito, Ecuador, for the third United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, better known as Habitat III ... What became known as the first Habitat conference also attracted luminaries such as Margaret Mead, geodesic-dome proselyte Buckminster Fuller, Mother Teresa, and Paolo Soleri, who designed an experimental “city” in the Arizona desert meant to nurture a compact, utopian society ... Lots....

Roger Waters Shares What He Really Wanted to Say About Trump (and Clinton) at Desert Trip

Edit Billboard 14 Oct 2016

Roger Waters isn't laboring under any delusions about why he was hired to close out both weekends of the boomer-centric Desert Trip festival in California ... That is correct, yeah. My plan absolutely is to move on. I’ve got a lot to say, and I’ve got a huge amount of material ... Yeah ... I thought of building an LED kind of geodesic dome over the whole audience and making stuff that was [set against] the stars ... I think....

Wexner Center's Black Mountain show explores a big bang that changed art forever (photos, video)

Edit Cleveland 11 Oct 2016

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Black Mountain College was an artistic big bang that changed the world ... The college was where the Bauhaus met the Bowery, by way of backwoods Appalachia ... Buckminster Fuller ... The innovations unleashed at the college turned it into a Ground Zero for everything from Fuller's Geodesic domes and Cunningham's free-form performances to the Pop Art masterpieces of Robert Rauschenberg, another illustrious student ... When....

'The people's house': Gala celebrates 100th anniversary of Capitol's dedication

Edit Deseret News 09 Oct 2016

SALT LAKE CITY — The sun dipped low on an unseasonably warm October day as men in tailcoats and women in period dresses milled around the rotunda of Utah Capitol, chatting underneath the warm light of the chandeliers and cheerful sashes of red, white and blue ... Hundreds of schoolchildren spent the day exploring the Capitol and its symbols, making geodesic domes out of gumdrops and rubbings from the county medallions on the floor....

Capitol Preservation Board Announces Capitol Centennial Celebration (The Office of the Governor of the State of Utah)

Edit Public Technologies 07 Oct 2016

(Source. The Office of the Governor of the State of Utah) ... All events are free and open to the public. From Monday Oct. 3 - Fri., Oct ... From 9 a.m. - 8 p.m ... On Saturday Oct. 8 from 1 p.m. - 4 p.m, children and families are invited to gather for Capitol Discovery Day, where they will be able to participate in hands-on activities including geodesic dome building, copper etching, an earthquake demonstration and different coloring activities....

Oregon's missing alternative housing: A portable, spaceship-like Futuro (photos)

Edit The Oregonian 16 Sep 2016

Oregon has lots of out-of-this-world homes. We've looked at ones dubbed a House of Tomorrow, even one made of purple ribbed aluminum. We've spotlighted a circular home in Southeast Portland that was inspired by a flying saucer ... You can't live full-time in a pop-up geodesic dome, but dome homes on foundations and other prefabricated dwellings are OK ... Portland's Accessory Dwelling Unit Tour on Sunday, Sept ... - Janet Eastman ... ....

Race Against Time to Save Melting Glaciers' Data

Edit Newsweek 11 Sep 2016

This story originally appeared on Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In mid-August, a group of Frenchmen, Italians and Russians converged on a glacier near Mont Blanc, in the Alps. They weren’t skiers, or hikers, or a rogue band of yodelers ... The team began by setting up camp. They erected a bright orange geodesic dome tent, assembled their ice drill, and dug a snow cave to stash their cores ... Reuters....

Scientists store glacier chunks in an Antarctic vault for safekeeping

Edit Grist 11 Sep 2016

This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In mid-August, a group of Frenchmen, Italians, and Russians converged on a glacier near Mont Blanc, in the Alps. They weren’t skiers, or hikers, or a rogue band of yodelers ... The team began by setting up camp. They erected a bright orange geodesic dome tent, assembled their ice drill, and dug a snow cave to stash their cores ... ....

Tomorrow’s engineers enjoy Engineering Games (Engineers Australia)

Edit Public Technologies 08 Sep 2016

(Source. Engineers Australia) ... Kaleen Primary School Year 5 students spent five weeks preparing for their games challenges during their lunchtimes ... The competition's activities included using plastic drinking straws to build a straw tower or a geodesic dome, using spaghetti to build a bridge, designing and constructing a mouse trap powered car, building a balloon powered hovercraft and constructing and racing a light-seeking robot....

Did we baby boomers bring about a revolution in the 60s or just usher in neoliberalism?

Edit The Guardian 08 Sep 2016

I was right there in 1966. Was it bliss, very heaven to be young? To be honest, I’m not sure. Yes and no. The young are too full of self-conscious anxiety to be good at bliss. (You get better at it later) ... You Say You Want a Revolution review. a dizzying trip to the heart of the 1960s ... Women’s lib, gay lib and black power movements burst out, with a new environmentalism of Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic dome and the Whole Earth Catalog ... ....