Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts The Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts (originally known as Pioneer Theater Auditorium) is a theater located in Reno, Nevada. It was designed by the Oklahoma City architectural firm of Bozalis, Dickinson and Roloff as a concrete structure with a distinctive gold geodesic dome roof. The facility was completed in 1967 with 987 seats on the main level and 513 seats in a balcony, totaling to 1,500. The co-founder of Temcor, the project's contractor, was Don Richter, a student of Buckminster Fuller, developer of the geodesic dome concept. Temcor had built several gold-anodized aluminum
Kenneth S. Fagg exhibition of futuristic art singled out Fagg's cover painting for the January 1954 "If", praising its depiction of "a glowing submarine metropolis under interconnected glass domes, painted in a cheerfully colorful, cartoonish style". Kenneth S. Fagg Kenneth S. Fagg (May 29, 1901 – January 7, 1980) was a twentieth-century American commercial artist, perhaps best known as a co-creator of the world's largest geophysical relief globe, exhibited at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair. Fagg was born in Chicago in 1901. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin. After graduation, he studied art at the Art Students League of New York. By