The dome of the Mihrimah Mosque in Turkey is almost entirely pierced with windows. This design would make the Capitol building very bright and airy, but the governor is not interested in a dome ...
Building buttresses to support your heavy dome is a good solution -- but it won't work here. When the magnificent Turkish cathedral Hagia Sophia collapsed only 20 years after it was built ...
Concrete is an incredibly useful and versatile building material on which not only ... which to this day forms the largest unreinforced concrete dome in existence at 43.3 meters diameter, and ...
The Seattle Kingdome was imploded on this day in 2000, one day shy of its 24th birthday. The world’s largest 660-foot ...
The dome, also known as “The Tomb,” was meant as a temporary solution, but it has now become a long-term concern. In 2019, ...
Moreover, when the dome was completed and the scaffolding and boarding were being removed, a lot of people were certain that the building would eventually collapse – it seemed that the reinforced ...
China’s State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC) subsidiary Shandong Nuclear Power Group (SNPG) has installed the outer ...
The outer steel dome of the nuclear island containment building of unit 3 at the Haiyang nuclear power plant in China's ...