- Name of building
- Tank-Car Company
- Construction year
- 1958
- Structural system
- Space Frames
- Primary use
- Tank-car maintenance field
- Architect
- Richard Buckminster Fuller
- Architect2
- Structural engineer
- Richard Buckminster Fuller
- Constructor
- Professional
- Country
- USA
- Address
- 1811 Brooklawn Dr. Baton Rouge Louisiana 7km north from Baton Rouge Airport.12km north from Baton Rouge downtown.Foward R61 to north.Then turn to west at front of 964 Road.
- Means of transportation
- no publicbus.
taxi is reccomended. - Admission
- Outside : OK Inside : NO
- Reference
- ①The Dymaxion World of Buckminster Fuller, R.W.Marks, Southern Illinoise Univ Press, 1960, pp. 222-223.
②additional information on the location of the dome from Josef D.Clinton. - Note
- ・all-steel tensegrity dome
・it was the latest clear-span enclosure, ever built at the time.
・span : 117m height : 35.4m
photo taken on November 21,2003.⑪-166+167.
