Geodesic Dome in Newfoundland
We are helping to restore of a group of geodesic domes built in the 1970’s by the Newfoundland painter and orchid afficionado, Peter Bell. The building captures the optimistic mood of the times when free spirits thought nothing of clearing land and creating their own crazy buildings, armed with nothing more than the ‘Whole Earth Catalogue’.
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Wonderful though this was, the pitfalls of reinventing building technology have taken their toll over the intervening fifty years and a major overhaul is required. Very fortunately, the dome is now owned by a couple whose enthusiasm and ‘can-do’ attitude matches that of the original builder. This time, they are armed with the benefit of hindsight, some informed advice and a wonderful on-site saw-mill to produce the new timbers from trees felled on the land nearby.
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