Geodesic dome Zeiss plant in Jena, Germany. A larger dome, called "The Wonder of Jena", opened to the public in July 1926. Some 20 years later, R. Buckminster Fuller named the dome "geodesic" from field experiments with artist Kenneth Snelson at Black Mountain College in 1948 and 1949. Although Fuller was not the original inventor, he is credited with the U.S. popularization of the idea for which he received U.S. patent 2,682,235 29 June 1954. The geodesic dome appealed to Fuller because it was extremely strong for its weight, its "omnitriangulated" surface provided an inherently stable structure, and because a sphere encloses
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