Monolithic Dome Roundup
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Current issue
MAY 2025
Tour a dome home in Florida, visit Bruco: The Texas Italian Caterpillar, follow the Path to Ownership, and we wrap up the last workshop in Dawson, Texas.
- Exploring the Creative Possibilities of Air-formed Construction
- Tour of Bruco: Monolithic's Fabric Architecture Manufacturing Plant
- A Solid Start: Florida’s Latest Orion-Style Monolithic Dome
- Hurricane-Ready, Picture-Perfect: Explore This Florida Dome Home in Photos
- Construction Photo Journal of a Three-Bedroom Dome Home in Florida
- Palm Coast Double Dome Home
- The Path to Ownership: A Comprehensive Guide to Planning and Building a Monolithic Dome Home
- Pre-Construction Checklist—Essential Steps For a Smooth Start to your Monolithic Dome Project
- Rebuilding, Learning, and Community at the Spring 2025 Monolithic Dome Builders Workshop
- Dome Living Book
- Opening the Monolithic Forum
Past issues
APRIL 2025
Rick Crandall, a pioneering dome architect; the vast, tri-dome complex of Living Word Bible Church; YouTube video of Orion-style dome construction; and a skate park in the sky.
MARCH 2025
Workshop discount ends soon; birth of the dome; ReCover, a new way to renovate
JANUARY 2025
Practical advice for fire-safe community shelters; pickup vs dome; Vermont shell construction; and our new online forum.
DECEMBER 2024
Multidome home Arizona AirBNB, the Ankara Presidential Concert Hall, workshop stories, and a video tour of a dome home inflation.
OCTOBER 2024
In nine days, five Monolithic Dome homes are open for tours, along with the offices and manufacturing facilities at the Monolithic Dome Research Park.
SEPTEMBER 2024
Sign up for time with a dome designer; revisit an amazing dome home in Fredericksburg, Texas; and a quick look at a Monolithic Dome Builders Workshop.
AUGUST 2024
Early workshop signups end in a couple weeks; how students and faculty constructed a model home at BYU; and a home shaped like a seashell.
MAY 2024
In memory of pioneering dome designer, Larry Byrne; a look back at a multi-family dome home in Arizona; and a unique curved theater.
APRIL 2024
Visit the Orange County College Planetarium; cladding a Monolithic Dome with metal; still time to sign up for Spring 2024 workshop; and a ‘House of Miracles’.
MARCH 2024
Early bird discount for Spring 2024 Workshop ends next Tuesday; the many stories of Vista Dhome—the house on the hill in California that survived a wildfire and is now for sale.
FEBRUARY 2024
Dome Builders Workshop early bird discount; the art of perfect stucco; and the profitable fertilizer storage.
DECEMBER 2023
Visit the Catskills Shell House; a Texas Monolithic Dome home for sale; and a Workshop alum awarded grant…
NOVEMBER 2023
Tasi Dome home in Guam; Fall Workshop stories; new dome home inflated; cladding another dome home; and recovering from the wildfires in Maui.
OCTOBER 2023
Salt roads in Michigan; cover a dome with metal; inflate a new home; visit a house made of pottery; and we say goodbye to a friend...
SEPTEMBER 2023 SPECIAL
Monolithic Dome tours in Italy, Texas; Providence, Utah; and Costa Mesa, California.
SEPTEMBER 2023
Lightning strikes dome home; sign up for designer meeting; cistern & amazing shell; Florida dome for sale
AUGUST 2023
Florida dome survives two hurricanes; save $500 on workshop; recoating a dome home; upcoming tours; and watching The Sphere light up Vegas.
JULY 2023
See humpback whales in domed 3D theater; dome tour coming in October; and visit a rotating house.
JUNE 2023
Over one hundred dome home plans; experimental dome house on tour; and curved inspiration in NYC.
MAY 2023
Aquatic & Fitness center opens in Pecos; workshop recap; remembering the curved beauty of the TWA Terminal.
APRIL 2023
Spring Workshop discount ends Tuesday; sweeping thin-shell museum in Japan; and a new dome home takes shape.
MARCH 2023
Spring Dome Workshop discount ends soon; stone covered mansion; futuristic opera house; extended augments
FEBRUARY 2023
Pensacola beach dome home for sale, the first Monolithic Dome gym in Nebraska opens, an artist creates a living mural, and more.
OCTOBER 2022
The dome tour is this Saturday. Sign up now for one-on-one time with dome designers. Learn more about domes in the Philippines. Gallery of challenges in pool construction. And a twin dome for sale in Missouri.
SEPTEMBER 2022
Tour the Monolithic Dome Research Park in Texas plus a dome home in Utah. A dome home that was for sale. There's still space for the Fall 2022 Workshop. And a construction photo gallery for a Georgia house.
AUGUST 2022
Only a week left for Workshop discount, tour Arcadia Dome Home, why we don't prepare for doomsday, visit the new monolithic.com website.
JULY 2022
Sunflower yellow and sky blue; dome home for sale; Rocketship charter school; first dome home.
FEBRUARY 2022
Monolithic Dome homes for sale in Hawaiian valley, Florida beach, and Alabama forest hills. New horizontal ellipsoid calculator. New and old dome gymnasiums.
AUGUST 2021
Early bird discount ends soon for dome builder workshop. Visit the Pantheon in Rome. Swim inside this dome home. And the many firsts of a Houston church.
JUNE 2021
Monolithic Dome Builders Workshops are back this fall. Tour a mountain lodge. Try our new storage dome sizer. Revisit a sports center.
APRIL 2021
Red rock dome home gallery, two new calculators, and the big winter storm
FEBRUARY 2021
Tour underground dome home, workshop canceled, ice hotel, dome inflated