Linen Service Dome, Marking and Sorting Room, Los Angeles, CA

Structure Type: built works - commercial buildings - stores; built works - industrial buildings - factories

Designers: [unspecified]

Dates: [unspecified]

Los Angeles, CA
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An experimental method of using a canvas bag as a form instead of wood forms failed twice during World War II. The reinforced-concrete dome was to be 100 feet in diamters and 32 feet high at its peak.

This new method for balloon forming a reinforced-concrete dome failed 11/18/1943.

PCAD id: 11169

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