When Vessela Kouneva and Kalin Kounev took an afternoon to check out a property in the Brainerd lakes area eight years ago, they didn’t realize what a fateful appointment it would be — both for home ...

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Quirky and unusual, any home with a geodesic dome is certain to inspire curiosity. But they aren’t just local landmarks. Geodesic domes are both energy-efficient and resistant to natural disasters.

Geoship installed its first bio-ceramic geodesic dome in a bid to create long-lasting, zero-carbon, fireproof and biologically resonant architecture for a new way of building homes. The company is ...

The geodesic dome was made famous by Buckminster Fuller in the mid 20th Century and has remained popular with hobbyists ever since. Romania's Biodomes is the latest in a long line of firms to design ...

Cover of Montreal's Geodesic Dreams (courtesy Dalhousie Architectural Press) “After the war, Canada didn’t have the same rations on materials as the US, and there were possibilities here with the ...

PORT AUSTIN, MICH. -- A pair of unusual abodes have sprung up among the typical cabins and campsites at Port Crescent State Park, giving visitors a novel option for overnight stays starting this ...

Fish farms might seem like floating maximum-security jails, or feedlots that resemble trampolines wallowing in water. Near-shore cages can collect waste on the sea floor and act as a breeding grounds ...

The Natural Spaces Domes Building System is the only dome building system specifically adapted to the 5 different climatic regions of the United States. We are long time members and supporters of EEBA ...

Physicists have chased a unified description of nature for more than a century, yet quantum theory and gravity have stubbornly resisted every attempt to bring them under one roof. A new geodesic-based ...

For more than a century, gravity and quantum physics have stubbornly resisted a common language, one describing the smooth curvature of spacetime, the other the jittery statistics of particles and ...