The When in Dome installation is no exception. The build is based around a large geodesic dome, fitted with LED panels that glow and react to the occupants inside. Using the Microsoft Kinect as a ...

Clear, thick plastic lets sunlight into the greenhouse, and it protects the plants from the blistering heat outside. Unfortunately, plastic scratches easily, and the seams, or connections between ...

Glass is a great choice for a geodesic dome greenhouse! In 1988, the Missouri Botanical Garden tore all 3,625 plastic panels from its geodesic greenhouse, the Climatron, and replaced them with glass.

The answer: a geodesic dome, equipped with heat for the colder months, that welcomed its first guests last March. It was a "major level up," she says. The dome itself was ordered from Polish ...