New York Thinks Big

1957
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Work began on a new modernized Ebbets Field, home to the Brooklyn Dodgers. The stadium would be domed allowing it to be used year round comfortably. There would also be 50000 parking spaces, up from 700 as well as shopping and a convention center. Construction was completed in 1962.

Is that an extra zero or are you serious? If the latter, do you have any idea how much space that will take up?
 
I passed over Buckminster Fuller's idea for a clear plastic dome
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One could scarcely imagine how hot that shit would get in the summer.

That's what air conditioning is for. :) Between that and the proper ventilation that will surely be needed for safety reasons, the problem could probably be solved. The issue of glare, of course, is another matter....
 

kernals12

Banned
That's what air conditioning is for. :) Between that and the proper ventilation that will surely be needed for safety reasons, the problem could probably be solved. The issue of glare, of course, is another matter....
Can you imagine the electric bill for that air conditioning? There's also the fact that in the winter, the dome needs to be able to handle snow.
 

kernals12

Banned
Considering some of your proposals, I had to ask, it could really go either way!



Plus if that HVAC ever breaks, children or the elderly can pretty much cook to death which is just asking for a lawsuit.
File it under "Another one of Buckminster Fuller's woefully impractical ideas"
 
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