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Claddagh Dome—A Monolithic Dome Home

Updated 17 Nov 2023

The Claddagh Dome is a Monolithic Dome home built by the original owners, Jim and Chrsitine Spurgeon of Azle, Texas. Completed 25 years ago, the dome roof has since been renovated with a uniquely attractive pattern of metal cladding.The dome and attached converted shipping containers enclose about 3200 square feet (295 m²) of living space. Many custom elements are found in the home which was a labor of love for the two do-it-yourself enthusiasts who constructed it. … read more

Tasi Dome: A Monolithic Dome Home

Updated 9 Nov 2023

Tasi Dome is a Monolithic Dome home finished in 2012 by Stanley Hall and Linda Tatreau of Guam. The main house is 1900 square feet. The detached garage and its upstairs studio apartment are each 700 square feet. Tasi Dome was the first Monolithic Dome Home built in Typhoon Alley, AKA the Western Pacific. It is nestled amongst palm and avocado trees overlooking the Pacific. … read more

Tatooine of Catoctin Mountains

Updated 11 Oct 2023

“Tatooine of Catoctin Mountains” is the new Monolithic Dome home of Chris and Shehla Hyser. Nestled in a clearing and surrounded by sparkling trees near Maryland’s portion of the Appalachian Trail, the house is a triple-dome named after Luke Skywalker’s home planet of Tatooine. The house is 1890 square feet (175.6 m²) with a 1000 square foot (93 m²) garage. It hosts three bedrooms, two baths and an inviting great room with a custom kitchen. … read more

Southern Towers Monolithic Dome Home

Updated 12 Sep 2023

The Southern Towers is a partially underground Monolithic Dome home comprised of four domes, all of which are on stemwalls. The individual domes are connected via tunnel connectors built into the Airform. … read more

Tinsley Monolithic Dome Home

Updated 11 Aug 2023

The Tinsley Monolithic Dome home is a three-bedroom, three-and-a-half-bathroom residence in Cudjoe Key, Florida. Situated onto an 800-square-foot (74.3 m²) lot between a boat canal and the Atlantic Ocean, the home includes a swimming pool and a boat dock—and it has already survived two hurricanes virtually unscathed. … read more

Salyer Monolithic Dome Home

Exterior of the Salyer Monolithic Dome house in Batesville, Indiana.

Updated 24 Mar 2023

Constructed in 2022, this small home is ideal for one or two people. It is 964 square feet and features two bedrooms, a great room with kitchen, dining and lounging areas, and a bathroom/laundry room with a large shower. The rounded window and door augments designed for the Salyers are stunning, as are the shower and natural wood cabinets and doors. … read more

Silvershore Monolithic Dome Home

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

Theron Nichols Safe Room

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

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

Rocketship Elementary School Gym & Cafeteria

Rendering of new Rocketship charter school in Fort Worth.

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

Spencer Public Schools Athletic Center

Exterior rendering of Monolithic Dome addition.

Updated 25 Apr 2023

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

PABCO Gypsum Storage Dome

Evening photo of PABCO storage in operation.

Updated 11 Apr 2023

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

Johnson Creek Elementary School

Updated 28 Jan 2022

The Johnson Creek Elementary school is a three Monolithic Dome school addition to the Johnson Creek Middle and High School campus in Johnson Creek, Wisconsin. The new facility is under construction and will serve students from early childhood (EC or Pre-K) to the fourth grade. The new domes are identical to the five domes of the main campus and will create a unified pre-k to grade 12 (K12) campus when complete. … read more

Johnson Creek High School and Middle School

Aerial view of Johnson Creek school campus.

Updated 28 Jan 2022

Johnson Creek High School and Middle School is a campus of five Monolithic Domes in Johnson Creek, Wisconsin. The school houses 500 students from grades 5 to 12. It replaced the aging school characterized as having “leaky roofs, antiquated facilities, classrooms in double-wide trailers.” The total project cost the district $8.9 million. The design and use of domes saved the district an estimated $8 million, not to mention ongoing savings in heating and cooling the school. … read more

Lincoln County Farm Center

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

Golden Eye Dome Home

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

Elkhart Ammonium Nitrate Storage

Aerial view of the Elkhart Texas Ammonium Nitrate storage facility.

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

Jackson Farmers Fertilizer Blend Plant

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

Drummond Public Schools Gymnasium

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

Humpbacks of Hawaii Interactive Exhibit & Sphere

Aerial View of the Maui Ocean Center aquarium and the 3D Sphere.

Updated 24 Jul 2023

The Humpbacks of Hawaii Interactive Exhibit & Sphere is a multi-media exhibit and 3D theater at the Maui Ocean Center aquarium. Visitors walk through various presentations and activities about humpback whales before entering the “3D Sphere,” where visitors are immersed in the ocean world of humpback whales. … read more

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