ASM International Headquarters and Geodesic Dome

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I stumbled across this the other day when I was supposed to be working.

The geodesic framework is pretty cool, but the architecture of the headquarters building is really cool too.

Here are a few images that I particularly liked:

https://oh.reel-scout.com/up_images/8/1883578.jpg

https://oh.reel-scout.com/up_images/6/1883586.jpg

https://oh.reel-scout.com/up_images/5/1883565.jpg

https://oh.reel-scout.com/up_images/5/1883585.jpg

These are all from slideshow [1] which has a lot more pictures both of the headquarters building and the dome. (After about the fifth picture of the dome I was starting to get bored. It's worth it to persevere, though, since there are a lot of nice shots of the interior of the headquarters building later in the sequence.)

[1] https://rs.locationshub.com/Slideshow.aspx?lid=053-10059511

Does the dome have some sort of purpose? For example, as an engineer, if the dome was the wall of a building and provided more space inside for less material that would be awesome. As it is, it just seems like a useless art display and waste of material since the building inside is exactly the same as it would be without it.

I am under the impression that the dome is entirely decorative, which does seem kind of nuts given its size.

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