Posts Tagged ‘geodesic dome’
Monday, April 19th, 2010
Before I start, I’m asking on behalf of the owners of this house that nobody reposts or reproduces any of these images anywhere without my permission. Like a lot of people who have built their own houses in the woods, the owners, who are relatives of mine, appreciate their privacy and feel a bit negative about seeing their house all over the internet.
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Tags: architecture, Barry Shapiro, big sur vernacular, book, Builders of the Pacific Coast, cabin, cedar, downspout, geodesic dome, handbuilt house, handmade house, Handmade Houses, hippie houses, Home Work: Handbuilt Shelter, house, Japanese, Lloyd Kahn, Pacific Northwest, rain chain, Refried Domes, vernacular architecture, westcoast modernism
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Monday, April 12th, 2010
The geodesic dome redux. The Pavilion is a public art project by Vancouver artist Holly Ward on the grounds of Langara College in Vancouver. The dome is only up for another month, in case you’d like to go see it. Click link for events in the space.
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Tags: art, dome, gallery, geodesic dome, Holly Ward, Langara College, studio, The Pavilion, Vancouver
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Friday, November 27th, 2009
City of Vancouver, why not just demolish the Planetarium, too, and all our other iconic, distinctive buildings while you’re at it? Do we even deserve architecture in this town? See news story here. In short, last night it was decided in a 4-3 vote amidst raucous public opposition that the dome should be closed.
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Tags: architecture, BC, Bloedel Floral Conservatory, British Columbia, Buckminster Fuller, bucky ball, geodesic dome, hell in a handbasket, quarry, Queen Elizabeth Park, rant, stupidity, triodetic dome, Vancouver
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Sunday, October 25th, 2009
These photos of The Dome Show, an exhibition by art collective Intermedia at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 1970, are all from the web archive Ruins In Process: Vancouver Art in the Sixties. (See another post on this absolutely amazing site here.) The Dome Show was an experimental art show involving architecture, sculpture, performance, music, improvised happenings, a giant public dinner party, bonfires, public home movie nights and many other things over the months of its exhibition.
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Tags: 1960s, 1970, 1970s, 60s, 70s, Al Neil, architecture, art, Bingo, Carole Itter, City Feast, Dome Show, fashion, Garry Lee-Nova, geodesic dome, Gerry Gilbert, Glenn Lewis, happenings, Helen Goodwin, hippie, Michael de Courcy, sculpture, Vancouver, Vancouver Art Gallery, why are things so boring now?
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