A geodesic dome that size would make it possible to have complete control over the environment inside it.

VOA: special.2010.05.30

Governor Jay Nixon has agreed to shut off the lights in the dome of the state capitol building.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

Inaugurations are held at the United States Capitol - the legislative building with the big white dome.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

When the Senate uncovered Secretary Fall's wrong-doing, the press quickly called the incident the Teapot Dome scandal.

VOA: special.2010.12.16

If you stand under a skylight in the Visitor Center, you can see the bronze statue of Freedom high up on the dome outside.

VOA: special.2010.01.27

The students and their robots competed at the FIRST Championship at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

This large circular room inside the Capitol's tall white dome measures over fifty-four meters high.

VOA: special.2010.01.27

However,no one yet has acted on one of Fuller's ideas for the geodesic dome.

VOA: special.2010.05.30

But he probably is best known for another invention -- the geodesic dome.

VOA: special.2010.05.30

It is a plaster form that was used to make the bronze statue of Freedom that stands on the dome of the Capitol high above the city.

VOA: special.2010.01.27

A geodesic dome is a round building made of many straight-sided pieces.

VOA: special.2010.05.30

There are no limits to the size of a geodesic dome.

VOA: special.2010.05.30

Another interesting formation is called the Upheaval Dome.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

Soon the sun's warmth makes them shed crystal shells Shattering and avalanching on the snow-crust-- Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen.

VOA: special.2010.09.17

One huge rock is called Half Dome.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

Fuller named this structure the geodesic dome.

VOA: special.2010.05.30

The Iron Dome will help neutralize the rocket threat from Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

Some 1,500 people attended the two-hour ceremony under the soaring white dome of the basilica, as rain poured down outside.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

Israel's new anti-rocket system, called the Iron Dome, has passed final tests and will be deployed near the country's borders by November.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20