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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: Buckminster Fuller Proposed Putting A Big Dome Over Manhattan
Description: Today in 1895, the birthday of Buckminster Fuller, the “engineer, architect and futurist" who once proposed building a see-through dome over part of Manhattan to save energy and money. Plus: a community festival that’s actually in a bunch of communities.
The 1960 Plan To Put A Dome Over Midtown Manhattan (Gothamist)
This Was Buckminster Fuller’s Plan to Cover Manhattan With a Giant Dome (The Daily Beast)
Stroud Brick Throwing and Rolling Pin CompetitionÂ
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