Edinburgh Dome
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Edinburgh Dome by Philip Halling as part of the Geograph project.
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Edinburgh Dome
Image: © Philip Halling Taken: 27 Sep 2020
The Edinburgh Dome is a sports hall, so named because it was opened by the Duke of Edinburgh in 1978. The building is Grade II listed, see: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1393577. Its method of construction is rare internationally and is unique in Britain. It was designed by architect Michael Godwin who worked on the basic form of the Binidome (or Parashell). Construction involved a 36 metre diameter concrete ring beam, with two layers of neoprene sandwiching a filling of expanding steel coil and wet concrete. Air was then pumped in, inflating the building and stretching the neoprene sandwich into a dome to a height of 11 metres in about an hour. When the concrete had set, three days later, eight windows were cut out. The building is Malvern St James school’s sports hall.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.110814
Longitude
-2.318866