It will take a lot of iron chains and money to keep your heavy concrete dome from collapsing. Besides, there's an easier -- and less risky -- way to build a dome this tall today. Try again!

One of the largest domes in the world, the Pantheon, is made of concrete. You saved a lot of money building this dome with concrete. But remember: concrete is very heavy. About halfway down the ...

which to this day forms the largest unreinforced concrete dome in existence at 43.3 meters diameter, and is in excellent condition despite being being nearly 1,900 years old. Even as the Roman ...

Cath Wild built Australia’s first council-approved aircrete house using 6000 bricks she moulded herself, and estimates the ...

The US Congress has demanded an investigation into a concrete dome full of nuclear waste, threatened by rising sea levels in the Marshall Islands. Dubbed "the tomb", it holds tonnes of radioactive ...

Salina? Norbert and Marlene Hermes have lived in a concrete dome for the last 23 years and have never regretted it. The dome not only has saved them money in energy costs, but it is so solidly ...

Domes – hemispherical, onion-shaped, sharpened, oval, resting on a drum or on pendentives, adorned with a roof lantern, made of stone, brick, steel or reinforced concrete. Although domes are ...

Even today, one of their structures – the Pantheon, still intact and nearly 2,000 years old – holds the record for the ...

Even some of the repairs had to be, er, repaired. We can, if we want, contrast these problems with the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome, the crowning feature of a much-admired building.

Their atypical appearance is linked to the way they are built. Binishells are, in fact, gigantic inflatable concrete domes that rise from the ground using propelled air. Their inventor ...