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UPDATED 20 Jul 2021

Rocketship Elementary School Gym & Cafeteria

Rendering of new Rocketship charter school in Fort Worth.

UPDATED 14 Mar 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 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

Pabco Gypsum Storage Dome

Evening photo of PABCO storage in operation

UPDATED 31 Mar 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

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

Maui Ocean Center Immersive 3D Theater

Rendering of the Maui Ocean dome theater

UPDATED 28 Jan 2022

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