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The Vanguard School in Colorado Springs, Colorado

A sample of the thousands of Monolithic Domes built worldwide plus other concrete domes, thin-shell structures, and notable curved architecture.

Homes | Schools | Gyms | Storages | Churches | Safe Rooms | Lodgings

First Monolithic Dome Home

A rainbow echos the curvature of the Monolithic Dome home.
Home Projects Updated 28 Jan 2022

The first Monolithic Dome home was built by David, Barry, and Randy South for their mother, Marjorie South in Menan, Idaho. The home is 50-feet (15.25 m) diameter with 2700 (250 m²) square feet.  … read more

Louisville Community Safe Room

Aerial view of Louisville Community Safe Room
Safe Room Projects Updated 28 Jan 2022

The Louisville Community Safe Room is a FEMA P-361 and ICC 500 rated storm shelter that can protect up to 2,218 people during severe weather. It is also a community center for the city of Louisville, Mississippi. During the school year, it is used as an activity center for two adjacent elementary schools. Private organizations can also rent the facility for their own events. … read more

Chavez Ranch Road Dome Home, Sedona, Arizona

Red rock coated Chavez Ranch Road dome home
Home Projects Updated 28 Jan 2022

The Chavez Ranch Road dome home is a large Monolithic Dome residence that was also billed as a vacation rental. With ten bedrooms, seven bathrooms, and many amenities the home is an unmistakable landmark along the banks of Oak Creek just south of Sedona, Arizona. … read more

Eye of the Storm Dome Home

Eye of the Storm
Home Projects Updated 28 Jan 2022

The Eye of the Storm is a beautiful Monolithic Dome beach house right on the Atlantic shore of Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina. George Paul of Thermospheric Structures, Inc. built the house for his parents to replace the home they lost to Hurricane Hugo. He intended the home to be a shelter during a hurricane and be completely livable after the storm. George Paul designed Eye of the Storm to suggest a seashell that could be part of the beach itself. … read more

Palapa Pineapple Dome Home

Palapa Pineapple in Belize
Home Projects Updated 28 Jan 2022

The Palapa Pineapple is a beach-front Monolithic Dome home on Caye Caulker, Belize owned by David and Mary Spellings. It’s a tall, prolate ellipsoid — 25.5-feet (7.8 m) diameter by 40-feet (12.2 m) tall — divided into four levels plus a rooftop patio. … read more

Spaceship Dome Home

Spaceship dome home
Home Projects Updated 28 Jan 2022

The monolithic-like concrete dome home in Arvada, Colorado is often called a spaceship. The name stuck. The “Spaceship” house was built in 1978 by Clarence and Louise Lederhos who lived in the home until 2016. Architect Jason Elliott Purdy designed the house. Construction of the home utilized an inflated form, polyurethane foam, and steel-reinforced concrete. It is an air-formed, steel-reinforced, concrete structure with polyurethane foam insulation. The steps describing its construction sounds like it diverged from the Monolithic Dome process, but the end result is similar. … read more

Hillside Church

The sanctuary of the Hillside Church comfortably seats 4,000 people.
Church Projects Updated 28 Jan 2022

Hillside Church is an evangelical Christian church in Mont Belvieu, Texas. It was originally the Maranatha Christian Church when Pastor Ronnie Trice (1939–2019) founded it in 1973. By 1984, the church needed a larger chapel so they constructed the world’s largest Monolithic Dome to date. … read more

Breckon Sports Center

Breckon Sports Center
Gym Projects Updated 28 Jan 2022

Breckon Sports Center is the athletic facility at Park University in Parkville, Missouri. Twin 130-feet (39.6 m) diameter domes provide a full competition court and a practice gym. Park University is unique in that a substantial amount of the school is underground. … read more

Dome home with indoor pool in Centennial, Colorado

Aerial view of dome home
Home Projects Updated 28 Jan 2022

There is a 29-foot (8.8 m) salt-water swimming pool and a three-person hot tub in the living room of this incredible monolithic dome home. Chris Barnes, a former aeronautical engineer who had worked for Howard Hughes, originally constructed the home in 1982 as his own residence. The swimming pool and hot tub use salt-water and a premium, non-chlorine, filtration system to avoid the swimming pool “smell” in the house. … read more

Wells Middle School Cafeteria

Wells Middle School Cafeteria
Middle School Projects Updated 28 Jan 2022

Wells Middle School Cafeteria is a multi-purpose Monolithic Dome constructed next to the Wells Middle School in Catoosa, Colorado. It normally serves as the school cafeteria and auditorium. It is also a FEMA rated safe room for shelter during severe weather — including tornadoes. All doors and opening in the cafetorium are rated for severe weather. The building is large enough to contain the entire student body during an emergency. … read more

Mathena Family Event Center

Aerial view of the Mathena Family Event Center
Church Projects Updated 28 Jan 2022

The Mathena Family Event Center is a 35,000 square foot (3,250 m²) Monolithic Dome event center built as part of the Falls Creek Baptist Conference Center in Davis, Oklahoma. The multi-purpose facility can host nearly 2,000 people in a large meeting space that can be subdivided into individual conference rooms. The attached commercial-style kitchen supports banquets and other dining events. … read more

Lincoln County Farm Center

Lincoln County Farm Center ranch store
Hardware Store Projects Updated 28 Jan 2022

The Lincoln County Farm Center is a retail home and ranch store in Chandler, Oklahoma, situated on US Highway Route 66. It opened in 2015 and offers farming services, garden supplies, home décor, clothing, hardware, and much more. It is also the second Monolithic Dome at the facility. … read more

Italy High School Multipurpose Center

Italy High School Gymnasium.
Gym Projects Updated 28 Jan 2022

The Italy High School Multipurpose Center is the official name of the gymnasium in Italy, Texas. The nickname is the Gladiator Coliseum in honor of the original Coliseum in Rome, Italy, and because the school’s mascot is a Gladiator. Of course, most students just call it, “The Dome.” … read more

Hansen School & Community Gymnasium

Hansen School & Community Center in Hansen, Idaho
Gym Projects Updated 28 Jan 2022

The Hansen School & Community Gymnasium was a gift by an anonymous donor for the community. The donor gave $1 million for the completion of a gymnasium and community center that would be owned by the Hansen School District and shared with the City of Hansen in Idaho. The design came through a “design-build” process where community leaders specified what they needed and contractors designed and bid on the specifications. … read more

Eagle Event Center

Nearly complete Eagle Event Center
Gym Projects Updated 28 Jan 2022

The Eagle Event Center is the multipurpose athletic, administration, and instruction facility at Hennessey Public Schools in Hennessey, Oklahoma. The 25,000 square foot (2,322 m²) structure includes a competition gymnasium for basketball, volleyball, and other athletic activities. The floor can also be covered with carpeted tile and used for dances, assemblies, and community events. There are four team locker rooms, a referee locker room, concession stands, a training center, walking track, and a 2,000 square foot (186 m²) lobby. The gym seats over 1,800 at athletic events and almost 2,000 for assemblies. … read more

Drummond Public Schools Gymnasium

Aerial view of Drummond Public Schools Gymnasium
Gym Projects Updated 28 Jan 2022

The multi-purpose Monolithic Dome at Drummond Public Schools serves as a gymnasium, auditorium, classroom, and FEMA rated safe-room. The K-12 school completed the 123-foot (35.5 m) diameter by 39-foot (12 m) tall structure in 2016. … read more

Xanadu Island Resort

Oceanside dome resort
Lodging Projects Updated 28 Jan 2022

Xanadu Island Resort is a five Monolithic Dome resort in Belize. Ivan and Judy Sheinbaum started construction on the first dome in July 1998. Each dome is a larger, over-the-center structure. The Sheinbaum’s covered each dome with a thatch roof to give it a local appearance. There are 20, fully equipped condominium apartments for rent. … read more

Maui Ocean Center Immersive 3D Theater

Rendering of the Maui Ocean dome theater
Movie Theater Projects Updated 28 Jan 2022

The Maui Ocean Center, The Aquarium of Hawaii, immersive 3D theater. Humpbacks of Hawai’i Exhibit & Sphere. … read more

Jackson Farmers Fertilizer Blend Plant

Jackson Farmers Fertilizer Blend Plant
Fertilizer Storage Projects Updated 28 Jan 2022

The Jackson Farmers Blend Plant is a 3,000 ton (2,700 t) retail fertilizer blend plant near Holton, Kansas. The 100-foot (30.5 m) diameter by 35-foot (10.7 m) tall oblate ellipsoid dome is embedded into the hillside. Delivery trucks drive up the hill, around the dome, to a simple, angled conveyor which carries the delivered product to the apex of the dome. The product drops vertically onto a polar conveyor inside the dome where it is carried to one of seven large storage bins. … read more

Mile Hi Church Sanctuary

Mile Hi Church Sanctuary
Church Projects Updated 28 Jan 2022

The Mile Hi Church Sanctuary is a 233-foot (71 m) diameter by 63-foot (19.2 m) tall Monolithic Dome. It is the third, and largest structure on the Mile Hi Church campus in Lakewood, Colorado. The huge dome required a 55,000 square foot (5100 m²) inflatable Airform membrane. The sanctuary seats 1,500 with plans to add a 600 seat balcony. The wooden stage features movable towers and platforms and can accommodate a 140-member choir. … read more

Ocala, Florida, Twin Dome Residence

Twin dome home in Ocala, Florida.
Home Projects Updated 28 Jan 2022

The twin Monolithic Dome residence in Ocala, Florida, owned by Benjamin Erwin was a fixer-upper when he purchased it in 2017. Erwin rebuilt the openings, stripped off the old stucco, and recoated the structure. The rejuvenated home has a nice, clean look to it. … read more

Shalom Dome Home

Shalom dome aerial view
Home Projects Updated 28 Jan 2022

The Shalom Dome home is a Monolithic Dome home located in Platte City, Missouri. The Small family has enjoyed the many benefits of living in a Monolithic Dome home.  … read more

Waimea Valley Hawaii Dome Home

Monolithic Dome home in Kauai, Hawaii
Home Projects Updated 28 Jan 2022

Monolithic Dome home in the Waimea Valley on the island of Kauai, Hawaii. It was built by Jo King in 2008 on an acre of land alongside the Waimea River and the Menehune ditch — the oldest archeological site in the state of Hawaii. Mountain spring water in the Menehune ditch system supplies fresh water for various fruit trees — mango, coconut, papaya, guava, macadamia nut — and other tropical plants like aloe vera and agave. … read more

Underground Dome Home Near Buffalo, Texas

The front entrance to the underground house in Buffalo, Texas.
Home Projects Updated 28 Jan 2022

Many people dream of an underground home because of the inherent safety and privacy underground houses provide, but they worry about having a house that seems more like a bunker. This underground dome house proves that an underground Monolithic Dome home can be built to feel like an artistic oasis — nothing like a bunker at all. … read more

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Great Dome

Great Dome at MIT
University Projects Updated 28 Jan 2022

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Great Dome is a 100-foot (30.5 m) diameter concrete and limestone dome. It sits on top of Building 10 in the heart of the MIT campus. Completed in 1916, the whole building complex is an early example of steel reinforced, concrete construction. Building the dome required a grid-like scaffolding framework to create the dome shape which was then poured with concrete and covered with limestone blocks imported from Indiana. … read more

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