If you build a very tall, solid steel dome, the heavy weight of the structure will push the walls outward, creating a force called tension. This may cause the dome to crack and collapse!

The struts are attached to the pipe with steel straps ... that has us wanting to throw up a dome or two in our own backyard. We’ve seen other geodesic structures before; if you’re working ...

Historically, engineers supported domes with iron chains, but there's an easier way to build a dome this tall today. When the dome above St. Peter's Basilica in Rome began to crack under its own ...

And now the steel structure, which you can visually see, supports the wood structure above it and provides a level of stability moving forward in the long term.” When you walk into the dome many ...