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Telus World of Science/ Formerly the Expo'86 Centre
Vancouver, BC Canada
Science World at Telus World of Science, is a science centre run by a not-for-profit organization.
This geodesic dome ( golf ball shaped ) building was constructed for Expo '86. It was opened in 1985 as the Expo preview center and became the Expo '86 World's Fair Centre.
The height is 155 feet tall with a foundation of reinforced steel in a cement slab.
The dome is supported by 182 piles
There are 391 lights and 766 triangles on the Science World dome.
Constructed using 15,000 pounds of extruded aluminium and aluminium panels on the dome. The panels are 1 mm thick and are covered with a vinyl surface.
Science World has a total building area of 10,220 square metres and a total exhibit area of 4,275 square metres. The building’s volume is 36,790 cubic metres.
The air-conditioning system uses chilled water for cooling and gas-fired boilers for heating.
The OMIMAX Theatre seats 400 people
The screen is 27 metres in diameter. The theatre’s sound system uses high-fidelity, six-channel, two-way sound with sub-bass to create an unparalleled surround sound experience.
I read that the 15,000 watt xenon lamp that lights the movie screen is so bright that if it was placed on the surface of the moon and focused it at a spot on Earth, you would actually see its light.
(Please note** All information has been taken from various online sources and has not been verified to be accurate)
I invite you to view my Night and Twilight album:
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Thanks for visiting
~Christie
This is Science World, a geodesic dome, built in 1977, designed by architect Bruno Freschi, and used for Expo '86. It is 17 storeys high, and holds a 400 seat theatre, with a 27 metre wide screen. It is one of Vancouver's most iconic sites. The dome lights up at night, photographed by many.
Most people shoot the entire dome along with the surroundings, but I wanted to zoom in on just a portion of it. If you zoom in, you will be able to see the lights, but obviously not lit during the day.
The sun low on the horizon, positioned under this High Voltage tower, made this scene look like a rocket preparing to launch.
Solar and Electrical Power
“Imagination is more important than knowledge" ― Albert Einstein.
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Happy Clicks,
~Christie (happiest) by the River
** Images best experienced in full screen
**Being this is a hand held image, it is not quite as sharp as previous shots that I have captured of the same location.
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Formerly EXPO '86
Telus World of Science/ Formerly the Expo'86 Centre
Vancouver, BC Canada
Science World at Telus World of Science, is a science centre run by a not-for-profit organization.
This geodesic dome ( golf ball shaped ) building was constructed for Expo '86. It was opened in 1985 as the Expo preview center and became the Expo '86 World's Fair Centre.
The height is 155 feet tall with a foundation of reinforced steel in a cement slab.
The dome is supported by 182 piles
There are 391 lights and 766 triangles on the Science World dome.
Constructed using 15,000 pounds of extruded aluminium and aluminium panels on the dome. The panels are 1 mm thick and are covered with a vinyl surface.
Science World has a total building area of 10,220 square metres and a total exhibit area of 4,275 square metres. The building’s volume is 36,790 cubic metres.
The air-conditioning system uses chilled water for cooling and gas-fired boilers for heating.
The OMIMAX Theatre seats 400 people
The screen is 27 metres in diameter. The theatre’s sound system uses high-fidelity, six-channel, two-way sound with sub-bass to create an unparalleled surround sound experience.
I read that the 15,000 watt xenon lamp that lights the movie screen is so bright that if it was placed on the surface of the moon and focused it at a spot on Earth, you would actually see its light.
(Please note** All information has been taken from various online sources and has not been verified to be accurate)
I invite you to view my Night and Twilight album:
www.flickr.com/photos/120552517@N03/albums/72157649684655761
Thanks for visiting
~Christie
geodesic eyes, and your life on rewind... series
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Here's a temporary fix
In case you don't come down
Metallic cloud
Voice in the crowd
Cheer yourself up there
Free to be seen
Geodesic eyes
And your life on rewind
Your name was on file
So we pulled the case
How does it taste
With your mouth from your face
Here's a temporary earth
In case you don't get out
Melodic rain
Your own choke chain
Drove yourself here
So you might as well stay
You wanna be amazed
See the sky on delay
Keep a close eye
For a ship in the sky
Resurrection signs
To the numbers aligned
Zodiac pain
And the birds flew away
Colors dont change
When your life gets strange
Metallic Cloud, Damien Jurado, 2014
ARCHITECTURE BUILDINGS IN BELFAST NORTHERN IRELAND 04-04-2023
RISE is the official name given to the public art sculpture located at Broadway Roundabout in Belfast, Northern Ireland.[1] However, it has been given unofficial, colloquial titles such as the "Balls of the Falls", "the Testes on the Westes" and "the Westicles".[2] These names have been derived by both the sculptures location on Broadway Junction (located above the A12 Westlink and in close proximity to the Falls Road)[3] and in reference to its shape made from two, spherical, metal structures.[4]
The RISE sculpture was designed by Wolfgang Buttress and consists of a geodesic sphere suspended inside a larger, 30 m (98 ft) diameter sphere and stands at an overall height of 37.5 m (123 ft).[5] Geodesic refers to the shortest path between two points on a curve so that in the case of the RISE sculpture, adjacent connections on each of the spheres are connected using straight bars, thereby minimising the distance between two points.[5] At 30m wide and 37.5m tall, RISE is the biggest public art sculpture in Belfast.[6]
RISE was commissioned by Belfast City Council[1] and built in 2011[7] as part of a multimillion-pound road improvement programme.[8] It now sits atop of the A12 Westlink Underpass (a grade-separated junction) where, according to a 2009 NI assembly report, sees approximately 80,000 cars on average flow past it each day.[9]
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A moody, artistic impression of the beautiful world class, City of Vancouver, BC Canada
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A cloudy day with an ominous looking sky.
Formerly EXPO '86
Telus World of Science/ Formerly the Expo'86 Centre
Vancouver, BC Canada
Science World at Telus World of Science, is a science centre run by a not-for-profit organization.
This geodesic dome ( golf ball shaped ) building was constructed for Expo '86. It was opened in 1985 as the Expo preview center and became the Expo '86 World's Fair Centre.
The height is 155 feet tall with a foundation of reinforced steel in a cement slab.
The dome is supported by 182 piles
There are 391 lights and 766 triangles on the Science World dome.
Constructed using 15,000 pounds of extruded aluminium and aluminium panels on the dome. The panels are 1 mm thick and are covered with a vinyl surface.
Science World has a total building area of 10,220 square metres and a total exhibit area of 4,275 square metres. The building’s volume is 36,790 cubic metres.
The air-conditioning system uses chilled water for cooling and gas-fired boilers for heating.
The OMIMAX Theatre seats 400 people
The screen is 27 metres in diameter. The theatre’s sound system uses high-fidelity, six-channel, two-way sound with sub-bass to create an unparalleled surround sound experience.
I read that the 15,000 watt xenon lamp that lights the movie screen is so bright that if it was placed on the surface of the moon and focused it at a spot on Earth, you would actually see its light.
(Please note** All information has been taken from various online sources and has not been verified to be accurate)
A special shout-out to all my Flickr friends and visitors, for taking the time to view and acknowledge my photography.
I appreciate your visits & kind words of support.
~Christie by the River
**Best experienced in full screen
*** No part of this image may be copied, reproduced, or distributed outside Flickr, without my express written permission. Thank-you
Reflected sunset along the border ranges foothills and Mt Somerville — with a radar and communications geodesic dome.
The Geodesic dome of Science World illuminated in green produces colorful
reflections off the water in False Creek in Vancouver.
The Biosphere. A geodesic dome built on Saint Helen's Island for the World Fair, Expo 67 (Montreal). It's an icosahedron, a polyhedron with 20 faces. For me, is a planet...
Mt Somerville (with geodesic dome) and Mt Tomewin mark a range of hills which bound the Tweed River Valley on the north side. Weather and cloud patterns in the area seem quite varied and unpredictable in this location because on-shore winds, generally easterly, collide with prevailing winds which come from the south and west, and in summer from the north. This view is looking south from my home in the Gold Coast hinterland.
A geodesic vertex or point is a sign posted that indicates a precise geographic position forming a network with other geodetic triangulation vertex.
The exact position of the vertex used to help develop scale topographic maps, both national and regional.
Spain has about 11000 vertex that are usually made by a pillar 120 centimeters tall and 30 in diameter supported by a cubic concrete base, all painted white. They are usually in high places and cleared from which you can overlook other similar points, which is why they are often in places that pose good views. Since 1975 are protected by the Law on Geodetic and Geophysical Signals.
Most of those in the coast have finished swallowed by the sea.
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Bushfire smoke colours the sunset over the border ranges. The radar and communications geodesic dome and bush on Mt Somerville are in silhouette against the florid sky.
Gold Dome, corner of NW 23rd Street and North Classen Boulevard, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The Gold Dome is a landmark on Route 66. It was built in 1958 and was declared eligible to be listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. In 1958, the Citizens State Bank began construction of the Gold Dome building, the fifth geodesic dome constructed in the world and the first to be used as a bank. Using the geodesic dome design created by futurist and architect Buckminster Fuller, the architects for the Citizens State Bank, Bailey, Bozalis, Dickinson, and Roloff of Oklahoma City, created this unusual landmark. The dome is constructed of 625 panels, ranging in size from 7.5 to 11.5 feet in length, and spanning a diameter of 145 feet. The interior covers about 27,000 square feet.
In July 2001 Bank One, which owned the Gold Dome building, applied to the Urban Design Commission for permission to demolish the building. The bank stated that the structure was too large to serve as a bank and refurbishing it would be too costly. While preservationists have been able to save the dome, after several ownership changes its fate is still up in the air. The building was vacant when I took this in 2021.
The Clearing artwork by Alex Hartley and Tom James, which sets out to build a vision of the future in the grounds of Compton Verney. See the geodesic dome made from recycled materials.
This is the Biosphere, a geodesic dome designed by Buckminster Fuller for Expo 67 in Montreal. This was shot with a Hoya R72 infrared filter. Colors were then manipulated in Photoshop.
"You can never learn less. You can only learn more." Buckminster Fuller
Went down to Santa Cruz to visit Miles on Sunday. Our destination was the monarch butterfly refuge at Natural Bridges, but somehow we ended up in the geodesic domes in the campus Arboretum.
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"Dali Museum [architect: Yann Weymouth]: geodesic glass 'Enigma'; 18" hurricane proof concrete walls; spiral stainless steel staircase." [IG Remix.] (Saint Petersburg, FL; 6/1/2017.)
"The only difference between me and a madman is I'm not mad." -- Salvador Dali
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