Domes

A dome () is an architectural element similar to the hollow upper half of a sphere. There is significant overlap with the term cupola, which may also refer to a dome or a structure on top of a dome. The precise definition of a dome has been a matter of controversy and there are a wide variety of forms and specialized terms to describe them.

thumb|upright=1.35|Community of igluit (Illustration from Charles Francis Hall's Arctic Researches and Life Among the Esquimaux, 1865) An igloo (Inuit languages: or , Inuktitut syllabics ; plural: ), also known as a snow house or snow hut, is a type of shelter built of suitable snow.

architectural structure

The Panthéon (, ) is a monument in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, France. It stands in the Latin Quarter (Quartier Latin), on the , in the centre of the , which was named after it. The edifice was built between 1758 and 1790, from designs by , at the behest of King Louis XV; the king intended it as a church dedicated to Saint Genevieve, Paris's patron saint, whose relics were to be housed in the church. Neither Soufflot nor Louis XV lived to see the church completed.

building complex in Paris, France

World Heritage site in Pisa, Italy

indoor ice hockey venue in Stockholm

French learned society in Paris, grouping five académies

castle and palace complex of the Hungarian kings in Budapest

building housing the Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris

thumb|Cross-section of the Pantheon's rotunda.

thumb|right|Monticello and its reflection thumb|Some of the gardens on the property

five-star hotel

heritage building in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

shopping mall in Milan

memorial in Washington, D.C., United States

villa near Vicenza, Italy

castle in Strängnäs Municipality, Sweden

former city hall (1652-1800), made a palace and public museum by Ludwig Napoleon, on Dam Square in the centre of Amsterdam, Netherlands

circular opening in the center of a dome or in a wall

type of roof

thumb|250px|Squinches supporting a dome in Odzun Basilica, Armenia, early 8th century

building in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem

"tholos" tomb located on the Panagitsa Hill at Mycenae, Greece, that dates ca.1250 BC

original name of a large dome-shaped building in South East London, England

Palace in Sanssouci, Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany

array of antennas creating a steerable beam

concert hall and café in Prague, Czech RePublic

right|260px|thumbnail|Geodesic radomes at the Misawa Air Base|Misawa Security Operations Center, Misawa, Japan thumb|Spherical radome mounted atop the mainmast of a Type 45 destroyer thumb|A Boeing E-3 Sentry, showing its rotodome mounted above the fuselage A radome (a portmanteau of "radar" and "dome") is a structural, weatherproof enclosure that protects a radar antenna. The radome is constructed of material transparent to radio waves. Radomes protect the antenna from weather and conceal antenna electronic equipment from view. They also protect nearby personnel from being accidentally struck

public shopping gallery in Naples, southern Italy

monumental cemetery in Pisa, Italy

A cross-in-square, crossed-dome, tetrastyle, or quincunx floor plan was the dominant form of church architecture in the middle and late Byzantine Empire. It featured a square centre with an internal structure shaped like a cross, topped by a dome.

National Memorial to Ulysses Grant

indoor multi-purpose sports arena located in the Cubao area of Quezon City, Philippines

thumb|upright=1.6|Cupolas on the towers of Montefiascone Cathedral, Italy

The Exploratorium is a museum of science, technology, and arts in San Francisco, California. Founded by physicist and educator Frank Oppenheimer in 1969, the museum was originally located in the Palace of Fine Arts and was relocated in 2013 to Piers 15 and 17 on San Francisco's waterfront.

building in Paris, France

thumb|257x257px|Typical Early Christian/Byzantine apse with a hemispherical semi-dome decorated in [[mosaic (Basilica di Sant'Apollinare in Classe in Ravenna)]] In architecture, a semi-dome (or half-dome) is a half dome that covers a semi-circular area in a building.

18th-century Russian Imperial residence

planetarium in Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Gustavianum is the oldest standing building at Uppsala University. It was built between 1622 and 1625, and was used as the main building of the university between 1778 and 1887. Since 1997, it has been used as the university's museum.

series of experimental homes

structure in medieval Iranian architecture consisted of four barrel vaults and a dome

urban area under a single roof

temple in Sanssouci, Potsdam, Germany

nuclear power plant in Pakistan

Public market and former legislative building in Montréal

train station in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

palace in Strasbourg, France

Part of Persian architecture

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church in Sergiyev Posad, Russia

building in Chongqing, China

beehive tomb in Greece

gurdwara in Punjab, Pakistan

multi-storey urban building

belgrade Fair's largest exhibition space

structure composed of a relatively thin shell of concrete

First Abbasid palace in Baghdad

building in India