Park
Parc Jean-Drapeau
Montreal, QC H3C 1A9
Steel geodesic dome from a world's fair, its acrylic skin long gone, now an environmental museum.
This guide to the Biosphere in Parc Jean-Drapeau in Montreal opens with a welding spark that catches the dome's acrylic skin on a May afternoon in 1976, stripping Buckminster Fuller's Expo 67 landmark to its bare steel bones. You'll hear how Fuller, an inventor obsessed with one idea, built this geodesic dome from interlocking steel triangles to enclose vast space with minimal material, and how nine million Expo visitors once rode its escalator past capsules borrowed from NASA. Look up at the frame that has stood on Ile Sainte-Helene ever since that fire.
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