If it is scarcely possible to write another book about the world's famous Domes and produce something fresh or illuminating, then this 100-page compendium has made it. Inviting the reader to a voyage with an adventurous jaguar and his cub, goes beyond the description of the renowned domes, their architectural significance and global influence. From synagogues, mausoleums, public baths, to enfilades, cathedrals or mosques, it explains the dowser phenomenon of domes, that emits the effects of detrimental Negative green energy (-G), providing a sense of peace and comfort to visitors or residents. Celebrating the tranquil bravado of domes to resist and survive natural disasters (tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes), it estimates their held for centuries, or even millenniums. It defines them as acoustic and magnetic laboratories. This tour-book stratifies 84 famous domes for their structures (stone, salt, brick, concrete, reinforced concrete, clay holloware, wooden, masonry, steel, cast iron, copper, glass, gold), forms (corbel, hemispherical, saucer, sail, parabolic, polyhedral, onion, oval, umbrella), and style (Ancient monolith, Baroque hemisphere, Gothic cupola, Byzantine martyrium, Buddhist pagoda, Russian onions, Muslim saucers, and futurist polyhedrons). It also presents some must-see domes of Nature. Further, it explains both the intention and process of producing the listed domes that are life-affirming. Finally, replete with 110 composite pictures of two intelligent tourists (the great-dad jaguar and supersmart, funny, cute cub) 'taken' on panoramas of domes, it moves the concept closer to the junior reader. Today, as a new generation of architects meets the greater challenge of designing domes (public, domestic) that are sustainable or 'green, ' we see another age of expanding the vernacular experiments that influence and shape the mainstream of the modern lifestyle. Going green is divine and smart; remaining loyal to the vision of great Vitruvius (1st century BC) is much better. Visit other 90+ travel diaries from this author.
About the Author: Written in pourquoi tale genre, "Amazing Domes" completes a series of travel-diaries in the line with: (1) Amalfi Coast, Italy; (2) Amazing Andorra; (3) Amazing Bavaria; (4) Amazing Berlin; (5) Amazing Bhutan; (6) Amazing Cave-Houses; (7) Amazing Dublin; (8) Amazing Falkland Islands; (9) Amazing Florence; (10) Amazing French Riviera; (11) Amazing Gozo, Malta; (12) Amazing Greenland; (13) Amazing Iceland; (14) Amazing Innsbruck; (15) Amazing Jurmala, Latvia; (16) Amazing Monaco; (17) Amazing Naples; (18) Amazing Palau; (19) Amazing Paris; (20) Amazing Railways; (21) Amazing Salzburg; (22) Amazing Scotland; (23) Amazing Tree Houses; (24) Amazing Vatican; (25) Amazing Vienna; (26) Amazing Windows; (27) Amazing Wyoming; (28) Amazing Zürich; (29) Annecy, France; (30) Austin, Texas; (31) Banff, Alberta; (32) Bruges & Ghent, Belgium; (33) Cabo San Lucas; (34) Christmas Island; (35) Cocos Keeling Islands; (36) Colmar, France; (37) Cork & Kenmare, Ireland; (38) Easter Island, Chile; (39) Exquisite Bath, England; (40) Fifty Odd Loci in the United States; (41) Fiji; (42) Interlaken and Saint Moritz, Switzerland; (43) Island Saint Helena: British Overseas; (44) Isle of Man; (45) Lafayette, Louisiana; (46) Las Pozas, Xilitla, Mexico; (47) Lecco, Italy; (48) Lille, France; (49) Montserrat, British West Indies; (50) Mulhouse, France; (51) Myrtle Beach, SC; (52) Nara, Japan; (53) Obernai, France; (54) Odd & Outre Places of Washington, DC; (55) Palma de Mallorca, Spain; (56) Poznan, Poland; (57) San Marino; (58) Santa Fe, NM; (59) Sardinia, Italy; (60) Sélestat, France; (61) Sint Maarten: Dutch & French Overseas; (62) Sintra, Portugal; (63) Socotra Island, Yemen; (64) South Georgia & Sandwich Islands, Britain; (65) St John's: Newfoundland-Labrador, Canada; (66) Strasbourg, France; (67) Svalbard, Norway; (68) The Faroe Islands; (69) The Trulli of Alberobello, Italy; (70) Tristan da Cunha, and (71) Wissembourg, France.