Science World

This guide to Science World in Vancouver traces the geodesic dome's start as a temporary Expo 86 pavilion, seventeen storeys of triangular panels designed by architect Bruno Freschi and nicknamed the golf ball by locals, built with instructions to be beautiful and then torn down once the fair closed. It follows the campaign one insider and a handful of community members launched to save it from demolition, betting the leftover fairground icon could become something else. Look up at the dome that was engineered to vanish.