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
Ghana Trade Fair Center its first international trade fair was opened on February 1, 1967 by Joseph Arthur Ankrah, the then Head of State. The center lies on a 127-acre land it has shops, exhibition halls,clinics and stands. There are several pavilions, among them Pavilion A, Pavilion B and the round Africa Pavilion. The Africa Pavilion was designed by the Polish architects Jacek Chyrosz and Stanisław Rymaszewski. For the building, they chose a round form with an aluminum roof - a reference to two symbols of power in West Africa: the umbrella and the baobab tree. The aluminum sheets for the round roof of