alwaysunderconstruction:

Buckminster Fuller, Baton Rouge, 1958

The Union Tank Car Dome was designed by TC Howard of Synergetics, Inc and engineered by Dr. ME Uyanik.  Bucky merely held the patent to geodesic dome geometry.

efimeras:

DOME, BUCKMINSTER FULLER

This is one of the movable domes that projected Fuller, that could be set up by helicopter.

Ésta es una de las cúpulas trasnportables que diseñó Fuller, fácilmente instalable mediante un helicóptero.

This is a geodesic dome that Geodesics, Inc of Raleigh, NC designed for the US Marines.  Bucky did NOT design this or any other Geodesics, Inc dome.

paperplusarchitects:

Fountain Factory,  NC State design school student project 1952

sethpillers:

Seattle is no longer as awesome as this… I know because I live down the street from where this should be.

Ford geodesic dome was designed by architect/ engineer TC Howard of Synergetics, Inc.

Charter-Sphere Dome by TC Howard of Synergetics, Inc for Charter Industries, Inc. Charter-Sphere domes are not geodesic.

niico:

Charter-Sphere Dome tent designed by TC Howard of Synergetics, Inc and Charter Industries, Inc of Raleigh, NC.

Union Tank Car Company in 1958, Baton Rouge designed by architect TC Howard of Synergetics, Inc.

Charter-Sphere Dome designed by TC Howard of Synergetics, Inc.

Buckminster Fuller did NOT design this dome

ASM geodesic Dome designed by TC Howard of Synergetics, Inc in 1958.

betonbabe:

Thomas C. Howard, architect/engineer

THE CLIMATRON IN ST LOUIS, 1960

…gigantic geodesic dome housing the city’s botanical gardens