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Bison Activity Dome

Main entrance to the Bison Activity Dome
Gym Projects Updated 27 Dec 2022

The Bison Activity Dome is a high school gymnasium and FEMA-rated tornado shelter constructed at the Central City High School in Central City, Nebraska. The Monolithic Dome seats 2,100 spectators at sporting events and can shelter 2,800 people during severe weather. The dome opened in December 2022 and is the first FEMA Safe Room in Nebraska. … read more

Silvershore Monolithic Dome Home

View of the Silvershore Dome Home
Home Projects Updated 14 Dec 2022

Silvershore Monolithic Dome Home is a single-family residence on a beach near Pensacola, Florida. Constructed in 2004 to replace a home destroyed by Hurricane Ivan, the three-story dome features an oversized, open garage on the first floor, with a three-bedroom, four-bathroom home on the second and third floors. … read more

Dome of a Home

Beautiful twilight image of Dome of a Home beach house
Home Projects Updated 12 Dec 2022

Dome of a Home is a beautiful beach house built on Pensacola Beach, Florida. The house was designed by the late Jonathan Zimmerman and constructed in the early 2000s. The home has survived multiple hurricanes and was featured on multiple national news programs. … read more

Callisto Monolithic Dome Home

View of the Callisto Monolithic Dome Home from across the pond.
Home Projects Updated 29 Nov 2022

The Callisto Monolithic Dome Home is the house of Mike South and his family. Constructed in 2002, on the pond at the Monolithic Dome Research Park. The home was later expanded with a second dome, a small shop dome, a gazebo with a pizza oven, and a swimming pool. … read more

Rocketship Elementary School Gym & Cafeteria

Rendering of new Rocketship charter school in Fort Worth.
Elementary School Projects Updated 29 Nov 2022

Rocketship Public Schools is constructing a Monolithic Dome gymnasium, cafeteria, and storm shelter as part of their new elementary school in Fort Worth, Texas. The dome will be an ICC-500 rated Safe Room for students to shelter in during tornado warnings and other severe weather. … read more

Oktibbeha County Community Safe Room

Oktibbeha County Community Safe Room
Safe Room Projects Updated 23 Nov 2022

The Oktibbeha County Community Safe Room is a Monolithic Dome built near McKee Park and the Starkville Sportsplex in Starville, Mississippi. The structure is a FEMA P-361 rated safe room that can protect 1,500 people during a severe storm. Planning for the tornado shelter began in 2014 after “a tornado outbreak ravaged Mississippi, including an EF-4 tornado that devastated Louisville.” … read more

The Vanguard School Junior High

Exterior of The Vanguard School Junior High dome.
Middle School Projects Updated 6 Nov 2022

The Vanguard School is a public charter K-12 school in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Established in 1995, The Vanguard School has two campuses — one for grades K-3 and the other for grades 4-12. The school added a Monolithic Dome to their 4-12 campus to serve up to 300 junior high school students. … read more

Yorkton Monolithic Dome Home

Snow covered Monolithic Dome home near Yorkton.
Home Projects Updated 4 Nov 2022

The Yorkton Dome Home is a multi-story Monolithic Dome home constructed near Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada. The home features two large barrel vaults for the front and rear entrances. It is heated by pumping hot water from a vertical geothermal source well through a radiant floor. … read more

Waco Street Dome Home, Italy, Texas

Exterior of the Waco Street Dome Home in Italy, Texas.
Home Projects Updated 3 Nov 2022

Waco Street Dome Home is a one-bedroom Monolithic Dome home in Italy, Texas. The 800 square foot (74.7 m²) house has one bedroom, one bathroom, a kitchen, a living room, and a loft. … read more

Old Mill Dome

The Old Mill Dome in Island Park, Idaho.
Lodging Projects Updated 25 Oct 2022

The Old Mill Dome — formerly South Sawmill Lodge & Reunion Center — is a large family and group vacation lodge in Island Park, Idaho. The facility has ten bedrooms, two bunk rooms with twenty total beds, a large surround-sound theater, a circular loft with zipline, a huge gathering area downstairs, a large kitchen, four bathrooms, and two children play areas under the staircases. … read more

Red Fox Road Dome Home, Otterville, Missouri

Exterior of the Red Fox Road Dome Home
Home Projects Updated 6 Oct 2022

Red Fox Road Dome Home is a Monolithic Dome residence just south of the tiny town of Otterville, Missouri — population 454 — just fifteen miles east of Sedalia. The home is a dual-dome structure with inset, arched augments for the doors and windows. The larger dome features a large, open kitchen and living room with two bedrooms and a bathroom. The smaller dome includes the main bedroom with bathroom, another bedroom, and a study. … read more

PABCO Gypsum Storage Dome

Evening photo of PABCO storage in operation
Gypsum Storage Projects Updated 26 Sep 2022

PABCO Gypsum is a vertically integrated mining and manufacturing plant of gypsum board — also known as wallboard, drywall, Sheetrock — east of Las Vegas, Nevada. The 4,000 acre (16.2 km²) complex includes the gypsum mine, ore processing, and the gypsum board manufacturing plant. PABCO Gypsum produces 110 million square meters of gypsum board annually — enough to build 120,000 new homes. … read more

Arcadia Dome Home

Snow covers the Monolithic Dome home.
Home Projects Updated 8 Aug 2022

Arcadia Dome Home is an Orion-style Monolithic Dome home in Providence, Utah. Constructed in 2016, it is the home of MDI Publisher Dave South and his family. The home merges three dome shapes into one seamless structure using a prototype transverse Airform membrane for construction. … read more

Kerst Home, Bunkerville, Nevada

Patio of the Kerst home in Bunkerville, Nevada.
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Home Projects Updated 6 Aug 2022

Diane and John Kerst’s home is a two-story Monolithic Dome residence in Bunkerville, Nevada. In addition to their 3 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms they have an indoor swimming pool, a balcony across the living room, a circular conch-shell shower, custom curved stairs, an office and a state-of-the-art kitchen. … read more

Deer Crossing Dome Home, Pottsboro, Texas

Backyard view of the Monolithic Dome Home.
Home Projects Updated 12 Jul 2022

Deer Crossing is a Monolithic Dome home at Lake Texoma near the Texas/Oklahoma border. The home is a single dome with a large, open living space decorated with light lues, large windows, and beautiful chandeliers. … read more

Theron Nichols Safe Room

Interior view of the large room at the Theron Nichols Safe Room.
Safe Room Projects Updated 28 Jun 2022

The Theron Nichols Safe Room is a Monolithic Dome storm shelter built by the City of Tupelo, Mississippi, after a fatal tornado outbreak in 2014. The shelters are part of an effort by the state of Mississippi to expand the number of safe rooms available to residents and especially students while attending school. … read more

Lee Acres Safe Room

Exterior view of the Lee Acres Safe Room in Tupelo, MS.
Safe Room Projects Updated 28 Jun 2022

The Lee Acres Safe Room is a Monolithic Dome storm shelter built by the City of Tupelo, Mississippi, after a fatal tornado outbreak in 2014. The shelters are part of an effort by the state of Mississippi to expand the number of safe rooms available to residents and especially students while attending school. … read more

A-1 Rental Inc

Rentals sign embedded in metal cladding on the dome.
Hardware Store Projects Updated 25 Mar 2022

A-1 Rental Inc. is a construction equipment rental store in Rexburg, Idaho. They offer a wide range of equipment to rent including skid steers, excavators, compactors, generators, forklifts, and much more. They are also an authorized dealer of Husqvarna products, “a global leader in outdoor power products for forestry, park maintenance, and lawn & garden care. … read more

Elkhart Ammonium Nitrate Storage

Aerial view of the Elkhart Texas Ammonium Nitrate storage facility.
Fertilizer Storage Projects Updated 25 Feb 2022

The Elkhart Ammonium Nitrate Storage is a Monolithic Dome storage built at the El Dorado Agricultural Products retail facility in Elkhart, Texas. It stores 20,000 tons (18 kt) of granular ammonium nitrate in a 115-foot (35 m) diameter hemisphere on a 36-foot (11 m) integrated stem wall. The overall height is 92.5-feet (28 m), making it the tallest building in Elkhart. … read more

Sweet Dome Alabama

Drone image of the tri-dome home, "Sweet Dome Alabama."
Home Projects Updated 1 Feb 2022

Sweet Dome Alabama is a Monolithic Dome home near New Hope, Alabama. Nestled on a hillside among a forest of black walnut, poplar, red oak trees, this 2,133 square foot (198 m²) home features two bedrooms, two bathrooms, kitchen, dining room, great room. … read more

Golden Eye Dome Home

Golden Eye dome home
Home Projects Updated 28 Jan 2022

Golden Eye is the home of Margaret Clayton in Port Saint Joe, Florida. When she and her late husband lived in the Bahamas, they found that all homes were named so when she built this home, she named it “Golden Eye.” The house is situated on Beacon Hill — 21-feet (6.4 m) above sea level — near Mexico Beach on the Florida panhandle. A half-mile walk (1 km) leads to a beautiful beach on the Gulf of Mexico. … read more

Spencer Public Schools Athletic Center

Exterior rendering of Monolithic Dome addition
Gym Projects Updated 28 Jan 2022

The multipurpose athletic and classroom facility at Spencer Public Schools K-12 campus in Spencer, Wisconsin, houses a gymnasium, wrestling room, fitness center, and more. It was part of a $5.9 million upgrade that included improvements to the elementary school portion of the existing school. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) paid $2.9 million in improvement grants since the facility is also a shelter-in-place safe room. … read more

Avalon Multipurpose Center

The competition basketball court inside.
Gym Projects Updated 28 Jan 2022

The Avalon Multipurpose Center is a school gymnasium for the K12 school district in Avalon, Texas. The facility features a full-size basketball court, four locker rooms, synthetic glass front, foyer, restrooms, concessions, and seating for 720 spectators. … read more

Anthony N. Fusco, Sr. Athletic Center & Academic Center

Exterior of the Anthony N. Fusco, Sr. Athletic Center
Gym Projects Updated 28 Jan 2022

The Anthony N. Fusco, Sr. Athletic & Academic Center is a beautiful addition to the Delaware Military Academy’s campus. School administration at the Academy saw a need for the students to have more space for athletic and academic activities, and decided a dome gymnasium could provide this extra space. The collaboration of a few different companies was able to produce the new facility for the young cadets to utilize. … read more

Pantheon, Rome, 126 A.D.

A twilight view of the Pantheon as visitors walk around the enormous structure.
Historic Dome Projects Updated 28 Jan 2022

The Pantheon — Greek for “a temple to all gods" — is a former Roman temple constructed in Rome, Italy, from 113 to 126 A.D. At almost 2,000 years old, it is the oldest, continuously used structure in history. The key to its longevity is a concrete hemispherical dome roof. At 142 feet (43 m) diameter, it was and is the largest unreinforced concrete dome in the world. … read more

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