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Lemay injects new life into Montreal’s Expo 67 site

Canadian multidisciplinary design firm Lemay recently revitalized a core area on the site of Expo 67, the 1967...

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Escape the everyday in this Geodesic Dome House in Palm Springs

Inspired by 20th-century architect R. Buckminster Fuller, architect Pavlina Williams transformed a decrepit dome...

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Kinfolk’s hipster haven in Brooklyn oozes an off-grid, hippie aesthetic

Pacific Northwest hipster vibes meets Buckminster Fuller in clothing company Kinfolk’s beautiful multi-use events...

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Autonomous robotic garden drives itself around the city in search of sun

http://vimeo.com/163436492 J. R. R. Tolkien’s Ents, a race of anthropomorphic tree creatures, belong to the...

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8 groundbreaking Buckminster Fuller semifinalist designs that are changing the world

1. African Design Center trains next wave of African architects The African Design Center is a program of the...

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BFI announces six innovative finalists for the 2015 Buckminster Fuller Challenge

Named after R. Buckminster Fuller, the renowned 20th century inventor and visionary, the Buckminster Fuller Challenge...

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Pneuhaus’ temporary Bubble Dome is made from hundreds of TPU balls

The designers ordered hundreds of TPU balls from Alibaba and used a thousand feet of hand-sewn nylon webbing to...

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Futuristic inflatable spa engulfs visitors in mist on the River Thames

The Nine Elms Horticultural Spa & Apothecary Experience is an experimental public space created to coincide...

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ON/OFF’s BOULEvard tensegrity ball is a mobile playground in Brussels

http://vimeo.com/114451559 The ON/OFF team assembled the 4-meter-tall BOULEvard ball with high-tension rope...

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5 great reasons to build a geodesic dome home

  Dome homes. They’re kind of weird looking and they don’t exactly fit into those perfect little neighborhoods...

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Buckminster Fuller’s sparkling Fly’s Eye Dome unveiled in Miami

Buckminster Fuller's patented prototype for low-cost portable dome housing, designed in 1965, has just been reproduced...

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INTERVIEW: HOK’s Yann Weymouth Discusses Designing the Hurricane-Resistant Salvador Dalí Museum

This article was originally published in October of 2011. Earlier this year we reported on the opening of the...

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BFI Announces Seven Pioneering Finalists for the 2014 Buckminster Fuller Challenge

The Force Majeure The Force Majeure is a large-scale, holistic response to global warming and accelerated resource...

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Incredible Buckminster Fuller-Inspired Bioclimatic Dome Shows Off the Power of Digital Prefabrication

To symbolize the global network of digital fabricators, the design of the Endesa World Fab Condenser is based on...

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Chinese Developer Unveils Plans for Cloned Austrian Village Complete With Imported Alpine Air

Following in the footsteps of the world's first cloned village, a Chinese developer has announced plans to build...

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Buckminster Fuller’s Dome House to be Repaired & Transformed into Museum

On April 19th, restoration work will begin on the world’s first geodesic dome home in Carbondale, Illinois. The...

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Ninety-Nine Failures Pavilion is Built from Ninja Star-Shaped Steel Pillows

The Digital Fabrication Lab is an initiative founded by architect Kengo Kuma and Yusuke Obuchi to explore architectural...

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Students Design a Buckminster Fuller-Inspired Pavilion for Baltimore’s Artscape Festival

The geometric canopy, which echoes Fuller’s iconic geodesic dome, was designed to use as little material as possible....

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Buckminster Fuller-Inspired Gold Dome To Be Preserved As Historic Site in Oklahoma

This isn’t the first time the historic building has been saved from destruction. In 2001, the building was slated...

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Roskilde Plywood Dome is a Large Geodesic Structure Inspired by a C240 Molecule

The first version of the dome was designed in 2011, as a structure that could be used as the festival’s facility...

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Oklahoma City Developer Offers $100,000 to Anyone Who Will Take His Geodesic Dome

Buckminster-Fuller's ground-breaking geodesic domes might have been technologically revolutionary and highly efficient,...

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N55’s Walking House is a Modular, Self-Sufficient Dwelling for Modern Nomads

[youtube width="537" height="400"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkb6jfEwe0g[/youtube] The Walking House enables...

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Leo Villareal’s Giant LED BUCKYBALL Lights Up the Night at Madison Square Park

The thoughtful and mathematical structure of Villareal's BUCKYBALL is visually interesting in itself, but its constantly...

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The Living Building Challenge Wins the 2012 Buckminster Fuller Challenge!

Living Building Challenge founder Jason McLennan What if every single act of design and construction made the...

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The Living Building Challenge is Once Again a Buckminster Fuller Challenge Finalist

LBC has five imperatives, each of which has to be met and maintained for a full 12 months before a building can...

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Semi-Finalists for the 2012 Buckminster Fuller Challenge Announced!

This year's semifinalists range from familiar topics like Earth Hour and the Living Building Challenge, to a project...

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Donate to Save Buckminster Fuller’s Geodesic Dome Home!

Richard Buckminster Fuller is considered by some to be the grandfather of the American green movement - an avid...

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Montreal’s Biosphere Environmental Museum Resides Inside Massive Buckminster Fuller Geodesic Dome

The Biosphere is one of the only museums of its kind, dedicated solely to the environment and environmental education....

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50 Year Old Buckminster Fuller Project Gets a $7 Million Upgrade

The Ohio Historic Preservation Office in Columbus and the National Park Service in Washington, D.C. were responsible...

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Fantastical New Salvador Dalí Museum in Florida is Also Hurricane Resistant

To house such a spectacular collection, HOK designed the museum to complement the art, and give visitors a "Dalí-esque"...

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