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| Buckminster Fuller Dome Gets Rhode Island Restoration |
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BRISTOL (AP).- A 24-foot-tall geodesic dome designed by architect and futurist R. Buckminster Fuller has been restored by a Rhode Island boat builder.
The Buckminster Fuller Institute says the Fly's Eye dome was unveiled in Bristol on Wednesday. Fuller patented the dome in 1965 and created two prototypes, one 24-feet tall and another just over twice that height. He wrote of the dome structure that it could serve as a house "that weighs and costs about as much as a good automobile."
Goetz Composites performed the restoration work in collaboration with the men who originally constructed the dome prototype with Fuller.
The dome was restored ahead of its installation in Miami in December during Art Basel Miami Beach, an annual art fair.
Copyright 2011 The Associated Press.
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Today's News
June 1, 2011
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Venice in Venice Exhibition Tells the Story of the Birth of the Los Angeles Art Scene
A Masterpiece by Ferdinand Hodler, "Femme Joyeus", Sells for CHF2,882,50 at Sotheby's in Zurich
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BP Portrait Award Art School Launched by Top British Paralympian As a Cultural Legacy for 2012
Exciting New Dali Universe Exhibition Dedicated Entirely to Salvador Dali in the Heart of Venice
Sotheby's Sale of the Mei Yun Tang Collection of Paintings by Chang Dai-Chien Totals $87.3 Million
Unique Charlie Chaplin Film to Sell at Bonhams' Entertainment Memorabilia Auction
Hammer Galleries Creates an Interactive Virtual Tour for Current Modern Masters Exhibition
Beyond the Law: American History Unfolds at Christie's South Kensington in June
Original Star Spangled Banner Fragments Up for Bid, First Time in Modern Auction History
Kimbell Art Museum Develops iPad App for Picasso and Braque Exhibition
Cuban Youths Learn to Recover History at Two-Year Workshop at Havana School
Bonhams Hong Kong Sales Reach HK $200 Million (£15.6M) Milestone with 2011 Spring Auctions
Steven Holl Architects to Design New Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU
Buckminster Fuller Dome Gets Rhode Island Restoration
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