Geodesic dome with false starts and incorrect estimates. Fuller himself lived in a geodesic dome in Carbondale, Illinois, at the corner of Forest Ave and Cherry St. Fuller thought of residential domes as air-deliverable products manufactured by an aerospace-like industry. Fuller's own dome home still exists, the R. Buckminster Fuller and Anne Hewlett Dome Home, and a group called RBF Dome NFP is attempting to restore the dome and have it registered as a National Historic Landmark. It is on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1986, a patent for a dome construction technique involving polystyrene triangles laminated to reinforced concrete
Meštrović Pavilion a thickness of 57 mm (2.24 in), allowing natural light to fill the exhibition halls. The Arts Hall opened on December 1, 1938 with "A Half Century of Croatian Art", a major retrospective exhibition. The pavilion functioned as an art gallery for only three years before it was turned into a mosque in 1941, at the beginning of World War II. Architect Zvonimir Požgaj headed the project for adapting the interior of the pavilion to better suit the functions of a mosque, and Stjepan Planić designed the exterior of the mosque. Požgaj significantly altered the interior of the pavilion, introducing