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The Dome of Discovery was a temporary building designed by architect
Architect

An architect is trained and licenced in planning and designing buildings, and participates in supervising the construction of a building. Etymologically, architect derives from the Latin architectus, itself derived from the Greek arkhitekton , i.e....
 Ralph Tubbs
Ralph Tubbs

Ralph Tubbs, Order of the British Empire, Royal Institute of British Architects was a United Kingdom architect. Well known amongst the buildings he designed was the Dome of Discovery at the successful Festival of Britain on the South Bank in London in 1951....
 for the Festival of Britain
Festival of Britain

The Festival of Britain was a national Art exhibition which opened in London and around United Kingdom in May 1951. The official opening was on 3 May....
 celebrations which took place on London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
's South Bank
South Bank

The South Bank is the area in London on the southern bank of the River Thames near Waterloo station that houses a number of important cultural buildings/institutions....
 in 1951. The consulting engineers were Freeman Fox and Partners, in particular Oleg Kerensky
Oleg Kerensky

Oleg Aleksandrovich Kerensky was a Russians civil engineer, one of the foremost bridge designers of his time.Kerensky was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, the son of Russian prime minister Alexander Kerensky, who survived the events of the Russian Civil War and emigrated to Paris in 1918....
 (later Dr. Oleg) and Gilbert Roberts (later Sir Gilbert)

The dome
Dome

A dome is a structural element of architecture that resembles the hollow upper half of a sphere. Dome structures made of various materials have a long architectural lineage extending into prehistory....
 had a diameter of 365 feet and stood 93 feet tall making it at the time the largest dome in the world. It was constructed from concrete
Concrete

Concrete is a construction material composed of cement as well as other cementitious materials such as fly ash and slag cement, construction aggregate , water , and Chemistry admixtures....
 and aluminium
Aluminium

Aluminium or aluminum is a silvery white and ductile member of the boron group of chemical elements. It has the symbol Al; its atomic number is 13....
 in a modernist
Modernism

Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes both a set of cultural tendencies and an array of associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century....
 style and housed many of the festival attractions.






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The Dome of Discovery was a temporary building designed by architect
Architect

An architect is trained and licenced in planning and designing buildings, and participates in supervising the construction of a building. Etymologically, architect derives from the Latin architectus, itself derived from the Greek arkhitekton , i.e....
 Ralph Tubbs
Ralph Tubbs

Ralph Tubbs, Order of the British Empire, Royal Institute of British Architects was a United Kingdom architect. Well known amongst the buildings he designed was the Dome of Discovery at the successful Festival of Britain on the South Bank in London in 1951....
 for the Festival of Britain
Festival of Britain

The Festival of Britain was a national Art exhibition which opened in London and around United Kingdom in May 1951. The official opening was on 3 May....
 celebrations which took place on London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
's South Bank
South Bank

The South Bank is the area in London on the southern bank of the River Thames near Waterloo station that houses a number of important cultural buildings/institutions....
 in 1951. The consulting engineers were Freeman Fox and Partners, in particular Oleg Kerensky
Oleg Kerensky

Oleg Aleksandrovich Kerensky was a Russians civil engineer, one of the foremost bridge designers of his time.Kerensky was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, the son of Russian prime minister Alexander Kerensky, who survived the events of the Russian Civil War and emigrated to Paris in 1918....
 (later Dr. Oleg) and Gilbert Roberts (later Sir Gilbert)

The dome
Dome

A dome is a structural element of architecture that resembles the hollow upper half of a sphere. Dome structures made of various materials have a long architectural lineage extending into prehistory....
 had a diameter of 365 feet and stood 93 feet tall making it at the time the largest dome in the world. It was constructed from concrete
Concrete

Concrete is a construction material composed of cement as well as other cementitious materials such as fly ash and slag cement, construction aggregate , water , and Chemistry admixtures....
 and aluminium
Aluminium

Aluminium or aluminum is a silvery white and ductile member of the boron group of chemical elements. It has the symbol Al; its atomic number is 13....
 in a modernist
Modernism

Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes both a set of cultural tendencies and an array of associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century....
 style and housed many of the festival attractions. Internally the dome included a number of galleries on various levels housing exhibitions on the theme of discovery — the Living World, Polar, the Sea, the Earth, the Physical World, the Land, Sky and Outer Space.

Like the adjacent Skylon
Skylon (tower)

The Skylon was a futuristic-looking, slender, vertical, cigar-shaped steel tensegrity structure located by the Thames in London, that apparently floated above the ground, built in 1951 for the Festival of Britain....
 tower, the dome became an iconic structure for the public and helped popularise modern design and architectural style in a Britain still suffering through post-war austerity. Controversially after the Festival closed, the dome was demolished and its materials sold as scrap. The site was cleared for reuse, and is now the location of the Jubilee Gardens, near the London Eye
London Eye

The London Eye at a height of , is the biggest Ferris wheel in Europe, and has become the most popular paid tourist attraction in the United Kingdom, visited by over 3 million people a year....
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See also

  • Skylon (tower)
    Skylon (tower)

    The Skylon was a futuristic-looking, slender, vertical, cigar-shaped steel tensegrity structure located by the Thames in London, that apparently floated above the ground, built in 1951 for the Festival of Britain....
  • Millennium Dome
    Millennium Dome

    The Millennium Dome, often referred to simply as The Dome, is the original name of a large dome-shaped building, originally used to house the Millennium Experience, a major exhibition celebrating the beginning of the third millennium....


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